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Passive and Active Voice

Author: Ms. K

An Introduction to Active and Passive Voice

Source: Made by Ms. K using xtranormal.com

How to Construct a Sentence Using Passive Voice

IN JUST 3 EASY STEPS!

  1. Take your original sentence and note the subject, verb and object.
  2. Swap the subject and object OR delete the subject so that the object is the new subject.
  3. Rewrite as needed.

 

Examples: The subject is in blue, verb in red and object in green.

ACTIVE: The man ran over the old bike.

PASSIVE: The old bike was run over by the man.

 

ACTIVE: He completely ruined your bike.

PASSIVE: Your bike was completely ruined.

 

ACTIVE: You filled your paper with spelling errors.

PASSIVE: Your paper was filled with spelling errors.

 

 

Source: Made by Ms. K

Picking Active vs. Passive Voice

Source: Made by Ms. K