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Get Your Writing Moving

Learn how using active voice improves writing clarity. Explore examples and explanations to grasp the impact of active versus passive voice on your writing style. Judge your sentences and enhance your writing skills today.

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Get Your Writing Moving

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  1. Active Voice: Get Your Writing Moving

  2. You Be the Judge!!

  3. You Be the Judge!! • The waiter dropped the tray. • The tray was dropped by the waiter.

  4. And the Answers Please...

  5. Conciseness • Active voice involves fewer words and is more direct. • Active: The waiter dropped the tray. • Passive: The tray was dropped by the waiter.

  6. You Be the Judge!! • Your request for funding has been denied by the review committee. • The review committee denied your request for funding.

  7. And the Answers Please...

  8. Clarity • Active voice is direct and clearly states the relationship between subject and action. • Passive: Your request for funding has been denied by the review committee. • Active: The review committee denied your request for funding.

  9. You Be the Judge!! • The defendant committed the atrocious crimes. • The atrocious crimes were committed by the defendant.

  10. And the Answers Please...

  11. Focus • Active voice focuses the reader’s attention on the agent performing the action. • Active: The defendant committed the atrocious crimes. • Passive: The atrocious crimes were committed by the defendant.

  12. You Be the Judge!! • The sheriff was shot by me. • I shot the sheriff.

  13. And the Answers Please...

  14. Style • Active voice propels the action forward through the sentence and onto the next. • Passive: The sheriff was shot by me. • Active: I shot the sheriff.

  15. What is active voice?

  16. Active Voice The active voice sentence follows the sentence order of subject, verb, object. The active voice sentence focuses on the agent performing the action, whereas Active Voice Can you rewrite this sentence in passive voice?

  17. What is passive voice?

  18. Passive Voice The passive voice sentence flip-flops the subject and object. Passive voice sentences focus on the person or thing affected by the action Passive Voice Passive Voice: The baby was scratched by the cat. Active Voice: The cat scratched the baby.

  19. How can a writer identify passive voice verbs?

  20. Identifying Passive Voice The form of the passive voice verb will always consist of the following elements: Passive Voice Equation: a form of to be* + the past participle form of a verb (the ed/en/t form) The baby was scratched. The players were injured. I will be taken to the airport. Identifying Passive Voice *forms of to be: am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been

  21. The Prepositional Phrase Exception: Passive voice can also be expressed in a prepositional phrase beginning with by. The story was written by Hank Thompson. I will be taken to the airport by my boss. The Prepositional Phrase Exception Active: Stephen King’s The Stand is over one thousand pages in length. Passive: The Stand by Stephen King is over one thousand pages in length.

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