Active Voice

To help us practice writing with an active voice, we have two writing activities for you to complete after briefly reviewing active and passive voice.


1) We will do the activity found here ....by clicking this link.

2) We'll do a re-write of today's homework:

• Open up a new Word document file and begin to revise "from scratch," making conscientious choice to eradicate the passive voice when it is wordy or switches focus to a different subject. It is always easier to read work that doesn't have unnecessary words! Try to keep it to a verb, as discussed below.
  
  
• It is also easier to make sure the subject of the writing is the subject of most of the sentences. Therefore, go through your writing and make sure that the subject (the noun that does the verb!) is the focus of the sentence.

One Verb Considerations:

• Look for -ing verbs that you can make put into present or past tense. For example: "Jason has been working here since 2008" can be said more concisely, "Jason has worked here since 2008." The second sentence is more concise, or says same thing with less words, here.


• Look for hidden subjects of a sentence; sentences that turn the focus around on the wrong noun. For instance, "The dog was walked by Catalina" is passive, and Catalina becomes the object! This is wrong. She is the one in charge. An actice, quicker way to make this statment: "Catalina walked the dog."