Active and Passive Voice Flashcards
Tennis is played by Aaliyah.
Convert to Active Voice
Aaliyah plays tennis.
Active or Passive?
The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Passive Voice
A soda is being drunk by Elizabeth.
Convert to Active Voice
Elizabeth drinks a soda.
Active or Passive?
Rivers have been polluted by factories.
Passive Voice
Active or Passive?
Charles painted the house the color of the sea.
Active Voice
Active or Passive?
The bank was robbed by the Joker.
Passive Voice
The bridge can be built.
Convert to Passive Voice
They say they can build the bridge.
Active or Passive?
The students finished the project yesterday.
Active Voice
Active or Passive?
Christopher Columbus was a bad guy.
Active Voice
Active or Passive?
People use the internet for research, recreation, and business.
Active Voice
Active or Passive?
Which materials are used by the artist to make this sculpture?
Passive Voice
Active or Passive?
Were the pictures taken yesterday?
Passive Voice
Definition of a Noun
a person, place or thing.
Definition of a Verb
a word or a combination of words that indicates an action or a state of being or condition. A verb is the part of a sentence that tells us what the subject performs.
Definition of an Adjective
words that are used to describe or modify nouns or pronouns
Definition of an Adverb
a word that describes a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or even a whole sentence
Definition of an Active Voice
active voice is a type of a clause or sentence in which a subject performs an action and expresses it through its representative verb. When a subject performs an action directly, it is in an active voice. It then uses a transitive verb to show the action.
Definition of a Passive Voice
a type of a clause or sentence in which an action, or an object of a sentence, is emphasized rather than its subject.
Identify the subject, action, and object:
Somebody stole my laptop
Then determine if this sentence is active or passive.
Subject: somebody
Action/Verb: stole
Object: my laptop
Active
When is a passive voice used?
- When the person who does the action is unknown, unimportant, or obvious from the context.
- To make more polite or formal statements.
- When the action is more important than the agent, as in processes, instructions, events, reports, headlines, news items, and advertisements.
- To put emphasis on the person who does the action.
The sentences given below are very similar. Identify whether they are passive or active.
- I eat an apple.
- An apple is eaten by me.
- Active
2. Passive
Convert the sentence from active to passive or from passive to active:
The winning tomato at the county fair was grown by Jimmy Smith.
Jimmy Smith grew the winning tomato at the county fair.
Explanation: This is a conversion from passive to active
Convert the sentence from active to passive or from passive to active:
The author’s father wrote the introduction to the book.
The introduction to the book was written by the author’s father.
Explanation: This is a conversion from active to passive
