Active and Passive Voice Webquest

Introduction

Your quest is to master the skill of using active and passive voice correctly in your writing.  You will practice and apply your active and passive voice skills in order to complete this Webquest.

If you need to review active and passive voice skills, visit the class website and practice using one of the 4 tasks listed there:

 achs.amherst.k12.va.us/scthomas

Task

Your task is to find many examples of Active and Passive Voice.

Process

PASSIVE VOICE SENTENCE EXAMPLES:

Visit the following news websites and write down at least three examples of passive voice use.  

www.cnn.com

www.nytimes.com

www.washingtonpost.com

www.nbc.com

www.msnbc.com

www.wset.com

www.newsadvance.com