Identifying active and passive voice

Click on Active if the sentence is in the active voice; click on Passive if the sentence is in the passive voice.

For help with this exercise, see Using the active voice.

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undefined. Customer statements are sent out by the phone company on the last day of each month.
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undefined. For safety, the walkway to Bonner Hall is swept every night.
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undefined. To save the patient’s life, the physician administered CPR.
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undefined. Diamond engagement rings were made popular in the 1940s by the De Beers diamond company.
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undefined. Amanda often dresses her fluffy lap dog in little pink clothes.
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undefined. Hoping to attract more students to the math department, Dr. Harvey started teaching a course on the beauty of mathematical concepts.
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undefined. Facebook, a popular social networking site, was started by Mark Zuckerberg when he was in college.
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undefined. Job analysts expect the demand for nurses to remain high through the next decade.
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undefined. The campus sustainability program was started by a small group of student volunteers.
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undefined. Our nutrition instructor explained the benefits of eating dark green vegetables.
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