Active and Passive
SentencesAcademic
Center Exercises
We recommend you complete exercises
1,
2, and
3 in that order
and then choose one from exercises
4,
5, and
6. Of course,
you may do all the exercises if you wish for a more complete
practice.
Exercise
1: In exercise one, you'll make a list of when to
use active versus passive sentences based on the information
in the Active and Passive Sentences handout.
Exercise
2: Exercise two has two parts. In part one, you'll
revise active sentences to make them passive. In part two,
you'll revise passive sentences to make them active. An answer
key is included at the end of the exercise.
Exercise
3: In exercise three, you'll decide whether the sentence
is active or passive. An answer key is included at the end
of the exercise.
Exercise
4: In exercise four, you'll identify passive
sentences within a short passage and revise those sentences
to the active voice. An answer key is included at the end of
the exercise.
Exercise
5: In exercise five, you'll identify passive sentences
within a short passage and revise those sentences to the active
voice. An answer key is included at the end of the exercise.
Exercise
6: In exercise six, you'll identify passive sentences
within a short passage and revise those sentences to the active
voice. An answer key is included at the end of the exercise.
UHV students can schedule a
face-to-face
tutoring session with a writing tutor or contact an online
tutor to discuss any of these exercises or for additional
assistance.
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