Attention Shoreline students: You may have seen some of these links from the Shoreline Lab website. Keep clicking on others, there are many great websites to practice with. Please email at efriedenson@shoreline.edu me if any of the direct links on this page are no longer working. Also, please email me if you have any questions about the exercises. Make sure to copy the examples that are causing confusion. It will make it easier for me to help you.

Passive and Active Voice

A) Start here for explanations form the OWL online writing lab:

1) Active and Passive Voice Explanation

2) Example sentences in all verb tenses

B) Continue with explanations and practice with these links:

1) For explanations on how articles are used and practice using passive voice, start on the right of the Shoreline grammar page by clicking here

2) For more explanation and practice, go to the University of Illinois website here

and then follow these other links from University of Illinois:
Forming Tenses of Passive Verbs
Uses of Passive Voice
Active and Passive Voice in Writing
Hints for Identifying the Passive Voice

3) Try these exercises from eslclassroom.com (go to the middle of the page)

4) More at University of San Mateo here.

5) For more practice, continue with these from a4esl.org

a) Active or Passive Voice (Vera Mello) - HTML-only

b) Active and Passive (Gazanfer Us) - Flash [M] 25 Questions