ENGLISH

Name: ______________________________ Section: __________________________ Date: ___________________

Grammar Link:

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE

In our previous lesson, you already know about the active and passive
voice. To master your grammar on active and passive voice, let us have more
practice on this topic. Are you ready?

Let’s Review!
 Verbs like explore and test tell what actions happen.
 The voice of a verb helps show how an action happens.
 In the active voice, the subject of the sentence does the action.
 In the passive voice, someone or something else does the action to
the subject.
Learning Competency: Use the passive and active voice meaningfully in varied contexts. (

Grammar Exercise 1:
Find the verb in each sentence. On the line, write active if the
verb is in the active voice or passive if the verb is in the passive
voice.
_____________1. Plants need rain.
_____________2. Richard hit the ball.
_____________3. Claire closed the book.
_____________4. The ball was hit by Mario.
_____________5. The players wore new shirts.
_____________6. The book was opened by Christian.
_____________7. New hats were worn by the players.
_____________8. We bought a few extra pizzas for snacks.
_____________9. I read the newspaper every morning after breakfast.
_____________10. Mt. Mayon was visited by the American tourists every
year.
ANSWER KEY: 1. active 2. active 3. active 4. passive 5. active 6. passive 7. passive 8.
active 9. active 10. passive

REFERENCES:
 Steck-Vaughn PRE-GED Writing pp. 53-54
 https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/activepass.htm

Prepared by:
MARICOR M. CAÑO
 ENGLISH

Name: ______________________________ Section: __________________________ Date: ___________________

Grammar Link:
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE
In most cases, use the active voice in your writing. It helps you write
crisp, clear sentences. It is strong and direct. It usually saves words. But there
are three cases when the passive voice is good to use.
(1) when you want to focus on the action, not the actor,
(2) when you do not know the name of the actor, or
(3) when the actor is not important.

Example:
 Focus on action: A mistake has been made. (not You made a
mistake.)
 Name unknown: A woman has been charged with theft.
 Actor not important: The check was mailed on Tuesday.

Learning Competency: Use the passive and active voice meaningfully in varied contexts. (
Grammar Exercise 2: Choose the reason passive voice is used in each
sentence. Write 1 (focus is on the action) or 2 (name is not known) or 3
(the actor is not important) on each line below.
_____________1. They sold the car.
_____________2. My brother was struck by a car.
_____________3. The text message was made at 3:00 A.M.
_____________4. A bad check was passed in the food store.
_____________5. At 10:00 A.M. the doors to the store were unlocked.

Reflection: (What is the best lesson you learned from this task?)
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ANSWER KEY: 1, 1, 2, 3, 3
REFERENCES:
 Steck-Vaughn PRE-GED Writing pp. 53-54
 https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/activepass.htm
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Prepared by:
MARICOR M. CAÑO