Language Arts Lesson 6
Writing Strategies: Organization and Focus (Grades 9-12)

Instruction 6-2

Active Verb Usage (Grades 9-10)

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~schall/Verbs.html (Explanation)

http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Canons/Style.htm (Follow the links)

Now let's do Practice Exercise 6-2 (top) (click HERE for a printer-friendly version)

Directions: Complete the Practice Exercise 6-2 below. Consult the Answer Key below for answers once you finish. Review the Instruction material which relates to any questions you do not get correct.

Rewrite the following sentences. Change the passive verbs to active.

1. Before the semester was over, the new nursing program had been approved by the Curriculum Committee and the Board of Trustees.
    
2. Near the end of the game, an illegal time-out was called by one of the players.
    
3. Later in the day, the employees were spoken to by the boss herself.
    
4. The major points of the lesson were quickly learned by the class, but they were also quickly forgotten by them.
    
5. For several years, Chauncey was raised by his elderly grandmother.

Answer Key (top) (click HERE for a printer-friendly version)

1. Before the semester was over, the Curriculum Committee and the Board of Trustees had approved the new nursing program.
    
2. Near the end of the game, one of the players called an illegal time-out
    
3. Later in the day, the boss herself spoke to the employees.
    
4. The class quickly learned, and then quickly forgot, the lesson's major points.
    
5. Chauncey's elderly grandmother raised him for several years.

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