Shifts in Voice and Mood
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Shifts in Voice and Mood
Shifts in voice and mood worksheet for Grade 8: choose the sentence that keeps one mood (two commands or two statements), or one voice for two actions (active or passive). Twelve items, 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.
