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Active/Passive Voice

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Reinforce your lesson on passive and active voice with this grammar worksheet. Young grammarians review examples of active and passive voice, and then determine which voice is used in a set of ten sentences. Next, students rewrite sentences changing from active to passive voice and vice versa.

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5th - 8th
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English Language Arts
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