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Flashcards: Use Active and Passive Voice: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1.B

Which of the following sentences employs the passive voice?

Recently, a law was passed requiring all drivers under the age of 18 to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Without regular practice, it is impossible for someone to become truly great at a skill.

Frustrated by his test score, John kicked the garbage can on his way out of the classroom.

Claudia knew that she had passed the test, but she didn’t realize that she had earned the highest grade in the class.

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Flashcards: Use Active and Passive Voice: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1.B

Which of the following sentences employs the passive voice?

Your answer:

Without regular practice, it is impossible for someone to become truly great at a skill.

Your answer:

Frustrated by his test score, John kicked the garbage can on his way out of the classroom.

Your answer:

Claudia knew that she had passed the test, but she didn’t realize that she had earned the highest grade in the class.

Correct answer:

Recently, a law was passed requiring all drivers under the age of 18 to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Explanation:

Answer: “Recently, a law was passed requiring all drivers under the age of 18 to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.” One way to recognize the passive voice is to see whether 1) the sentence offers a subject for the verb, and 2) if not, can you insert “by _____” after the verb? The passive voice is considered “passive” because the person or thing actually doing the action is either missing (therefore you add “by _____”) or appears to be the recipient of the verb. Here we’re told that “a law was passed” but we don’t know who passed the law (it didn’t just pass itself). You could, however, add “by congress” after the verb “was passed” and it would tell you who did it. This is a classic example of the passive voice.

Flashcards: Use Active and Passive Voice: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1.B

Which of the following sentences employs the passive voice?

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

We the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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Flashcards: Use Active and Passive Voice: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1.B

Which of the following sentences employs the passive voice?

Your answer:

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation.

Your answer:

We the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution.

Your answer:

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Correct answer:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

Explanation:

Answer:"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." The clause “all men are created equal” uses the passive voice in that the “doer” of the creation is not mentioned, but the recipient of the action of creation (“all men”) is given as the subject of the clause. The passive voice is notable for the use or implication of the phrase “by _______” - here that clause implies that all men are created equal by someone or something, a classic indicator of the passive voice.

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