Voice in Writing

How can you make first-person writing sound natural?

• By only using formal language

• By including conversational phrases that show the character evaluating a situation

• By avoiding personal thoughts

• By using only short sentences

What effect does embedding dialogue within a character's thoughts have?

• It creates confusion for the reader

• It makes the character's voice more immersive and shows influence from others

• It makes the text feel repetitive

• It adds unnecessary complexity to the narrative

How can writers make character voices unique?

• By using the same phrases for all characters

• By applying techniques like embedded clauses, conversational evaluation, dashes, and blending thoughts with dialogue

• By avoiding internal thoughts

• By only focusing on plot details

What writing technique allows a character to recall advice or past dialogue in their thoughts?

• Using direct speech only

• Embedding someone’s dialogue within the character’s thoughts

• Ignoring past experiences

• Writing only in third person

Convert it into passive voice:

"They showed us the most important paintings in the gallery"

• We were shown the most important paintings in the gallery

• The most important paintings in the gallery were shown to us

• The most important paintings in the gallery are shown to us

• The most important paintings in the gallery will be shown to us

Convert it into passive voice: "They have offered him a good job"

• He has been offered a good job

• A good job has been offered to him.

• A good job had been offered to him

• He is offered a good job

• He have been offered a good job

Convert it into passive voice:

"Committee members handed out invitations for the meeting"

• Invitations for the meeting were handed out by committee members

• Invitations for the meeting were handed out

• Invitations for the meeting are handed out by committee members.

• Invitations for the meeting will be handed out by committee members.

Convert it into passive voice:

"We had to call the ambulance."

• The ambulance had to be called

• The ambulance had been to be called

• The ambulance had been called

• The ambulance had to be being called

Convert it into passive voice:

"Somebody will be writing a new book."

• A new book will be being written.

• A new book will be being writing.

• A new book will be writing.

• A new book will be being done.

Convert it into passive voice:

"Somebody will have been writing a new book"

• a new book will has been writing

• a new book will have been writing

• a new book will has been being writing

• a new book will have been being written