Active vs. Passive Voice
In this voice, the subject is performing an action:
The definition of Lateral Reading.
What is "the act of verifying what you're reading as you're reading it."
Identify the descriptive language:
“Today, the wispy wet water is streaming down from the sky, like honey slipping off a spoon.”
What are wispy, wet, streaming down, honey slipping?
Clause that can stand alone in a sentence
What is an independent clause?
Who or what the sentence speaks about. Noun or pronoun, a word naming a person, place, or thing.
What is the subject?
In this voice, the action’s target, (ex. ball), is positioned first as the focus of the sentence.
What is passive voice?
The purpose of lateral reading.
What is:
Identify the descriptive language:
“Drops of rain exit the pillowcases, drowsily float like feathers, soar in many directions.”
What are drops, drowsily float like feathers, soar?
Clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence and "depends" on another clause being present in the sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
What the sentence says about the subject. Might express an action or a state of being
What is a verb?
Is the following statement in active or passive voice: Karl watched the scary movie alone.
What is active voice?
The least preferred website to extract information.
What is Wikipedia?
Forms of descriptive language.
What are adverbs, adjectives, metaphors and similes?
I went to the park
Identify the subject of this sentence:
The moon disappeared behind the clouds.
What is the "moon"?
The following sentence is either active or passive:
The blaze was extinguished by the firefighter.
What is the passive voice?
Purpose of lateral reading.
Searching for articles on the same topic by other writers (to see how they are covering it) and for other articles by the author you're checking on.
Beautiful
Happy
Hairy
Scary
What are adjectives?
Although Shaina likes Mexican, Iraqi, Somali, and Italian food
What is a dependent clause?
Identify the verb in the sentence:
Then the black sky opened up.
What is "opened"?
Change the statement to passive voice:
Elizabeth wrote the song as part of a holiday celebration.
What is "The song was written by Elizabeth as part of a holiday celebration."
Information written by authors respected in their fields of study. Responsible, credible authors will cite their sources so that you can check the accuracy of and support for what they've written.
What is a credible source?
The girl ate cake.
Open-ended answer.
Properly merge clauses:
He came to class + He forgot his homework.
What is: He came to class, but he forgot his homework.
Identify the subject and verb in the following sentence:
"Ms. J's outward features reflect the delightful character within."
S: Who is "Ms. J's outward features"