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.

Click Submit after each question to see feedback and to record your answer. After you have finished every question, your answers will be submitted to your instructor’s gradebook. You may review your answers by returning to the exercise at any time. (An exercise reports to the gradebook only if your instructor has assigned it.)

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

Example

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Customer statements are sent out by the phone company on the last day of each month.

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For safety, the walkway to Bonner Hall is swept every night.

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B.

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To save the patient’s life, the physician administered CPR.

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B.

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Diamond engagement rings were made popular in the 1940s by the De Beers diamond company.

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Amanda often dresses her fluffy lap dog in little pink clothes.

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B.

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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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B.

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Facebook, a popular social networking site, was started by Mark Zuckerberg when he was in college.

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B.

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Job analysts expect the demand for nurses to remain high through the next decade.

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The campus sustainability program was started by a small group of student volunteers.

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B.

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Our nutrition instructor explained the benefits of eating dark green vegetables.

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