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.

  doer subject =  

   action verb =    

 3.  The group was strongly persuaded by what you said.

   doer subject =  

   action verb =  

4.  Mel's cat often scratches the furniture in the living room.

   doer subject =  

    action verb =  

5.   Later, my cousin flew into Baltimore from Chicago.

   doer subject =  

   action verb =   

6. Major Brown patiently taught the new cadet the basics of marching.

   doer subject =  

   action verb =   

7.  Against all odds. the contestant was picking all the right answers.

   doer subject =   

   action verb =   

8.  With a microscope, a person can see the cells in a piece of hair.

   doer subject =  

  action verb =  

9.  The students have read that book twice now.

    doer subject = 

   action verb =  

10.  In about an hour, the company had completed the upholstery job.

   doer subject = 

   action verb =