Active and Passive Voice

Thomas feeds his dog.

• Active Voice

• Passive Voice

The letter was written by the girl in order to break up with her boyfriend.

• Active Voice

• Passive Voice

Make this active: The blaze was extinguished by the fireman.

• The fireman was extinguishing the fire.

• The blaze extinguished the fireman.

• The fireman extinguished the blaze.

• No change.

Make this active:

The novel was written by a famous author.

• A famous author wrote the novel.

• The novel wrote the famous author.

• The famous author is writing a novel.

• No change.

Make this active:

Timmy threw the baseball at Cindy.

• Cindy thew the baseball.

• The baseball that was thrown at Cindy was done by Timmy.

• No change.

• Timmy will throw the baseball are Cindy.

The dog was hit by a car on the 1&9.

• Active

• Passive

Jennifer Lopez and Shakira danced the night away.

• Active

• Passive

Scar threw Mufasa off a cliff.

• Active

• Passive

"Hakuna Matata" was sung by Timon, Pumba and Simba.

• Active

• Passive

What is the subject of the sentence below?

Izuku Midoriya was running away from Bakugo.

• Bakugo

• was running

• from

• Izuku Midoriya