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Active - Passive Voice - Exercise 1
Directions: Identify the subject "doer of the action" and the verb "action" in each active voice sentence below.
Write your answers in the space provided under each item. When you have completed the exercise, click on "Check My Answers" and check your answers with those on the answer key.
1. On Fridays, the team hits balls all afternoon.
doer subject =
action verb =
2. The mouse took the cheese right out of the trap.
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3. After the party, we left the ballroom.
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action verb =
4. Mel's cat often scratches the furniture in the living room.
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action verb =
5. Later, my cousin flew into Baltimore from Chicago.
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action verb =
6. Major Brown patiently taught the new cadet the basics of marching.
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action verb =
7. Against all odds. the contestant was picking all the right answers.
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action verb =
8. With a microscope, a person can see the cells in a piece of hair.
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9. The students have read that book twice now.
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10. In about an hour, the company had completed the upholstery job.
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