Grade 6 English: Active And Passive Voice

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A worksheet that explains and provides practice in active and passive voice.

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• Littérature Sud-Africaine
• Littérature sud-africaine
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• Secondary education in France
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• Publié par: Netsport
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• Langue: English

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Active and Passive Voice Workbook

A sentence can have either anactive verbor apassive verb.

Grade 6

This is called‘voice’. In a sentence with anactiveverb, thesubjectis doing the action. This is called theactive voice. The tall boy threw the ball.[the tall boy (subject) is doing the action (throwing)] *if the subject tells me who did the action, it is active* To find out the subject of the sentence, ask yourself: Who threw the ball? (Who/what did the action?)

STRUCTURE OF ACTIVE VOICE:

subject + verb + object

In a sentence with apassiveverb, the subject is being acted on. This is called thepassive voice. The ball was thrown.[the ball (subject) is being acted on (being thrown)] *if the subject tells me who the action was done to, it is passive* To find out the subject of the sentence, ask yourself: What was thrown? (Who/what had the

action done to them/it?)

STRUCTURE OF PASSIVE VOICE: object + verb + subject Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary,Oxford University Press

When changing a sentence from active voice to passive voice, remember to change the

following:

1.Exchange the places of the subject and the object.

AV:

PV:

Sheboughta new car.

A new carwas bought byher.

Subject: She

Object: a new car

2.Correct the tense and form of the verb and the auxiliary verb.

AV:

PV:

Sheboughta new car.

A new carwas boughtby her.

3.Use the word‘by’before the subject in the passive voice. AV:Shebought a new car.

PV:

A new car was boughtby her.

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