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Active and Passive Voice

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How are the active and passive voices different, and when should you use each one? The first page of this two-page worksheet contains the rules and several examples. On the second page, your grammarians will be able to put pen to paper as they convert sentences from active to passive or from passive to active. 

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6th - 9th
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English Language Arts
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