Active Voice and Passive Voice (Grade 8)
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Active Voice and Passive Voice (Grade 8)
Active and passive voice for Grade 8: say whether the subject does or receives the action, find the passive sentence, see that a passive can leave out the doer and that a form of was is not always passive, say why a news report uses the passive, name the verb form that makes it, then change one sentence to the passive and one to the active and write a passive with no doer. With an answer key.
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Tell the active voice from the passive and change one into the other, name the mood of a verb (a fact, an order, a question, a condition, a wish), use were and the base form for the subjunctive, and keep one voice, mood and tense in a sentence.
Reviewed by Mr. Michael Sullivan, Teacher. How we check worksheets
How to use this sheet
- Have the child say each sentence aloud with the verb. Most verb errors sound wrong when spoken.
- Put "yesterday", "today" and "tomorrow" in front of the sentence to check the tense.
- For irregular verbs, keep a list of the three forms, such as go, went and gone.
Common mistakes
- Adding -ed to irregular verbs, such as "goed" or "runned".
- Using the past participle without a helping verb, as in "I seen it". It needs a helper: I have seen it.
- Changing tense in the middle of a story without a reason.
