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✍️ English 14 minLesson 23 of 50
Active vs Passive Voice
Control the impact of your writing by choosing who or what performs the action.
What you will learn
- Active voice places the subject as the performer of the action for a stronger, clearer tone.
- Passive voice focuses on the object and is useful when the actor is unknown or unimportant.
- Overusing passive voice can make your writing feel dull and indirect to the reader.
Active versus Passive Voice
Dr. Jodie Salter · plays in StudyAI
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Practice sheets
3 printable PDFs1
Recall drill
5 questions · write-in answer lines
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Apply it
4 questions · write-in answer lines
3
Test yourself
4 questions · write-in answer lines
Interactive quiz
Question 1 of 1Which sentence is in the active voice?
