Finding the Structure: Identifying Active Voice Quiz

In C, 'storm' is the subject and it does the action 'broke', which is active voice.

B and D make 'judges' the subject that performs the action 'awarded/award' the trophy.

B clearly puts 'students' as the subject doing the action 'conducted'.

The subject is the doer of the action in active voice.

In C, 'students' is the subject and does the action 'finished', which is active voice.

In both clauses, the subjects 'Jamal' and 'sister' perform the actions 'cleaned' and 'washed'.

Only 'the teacher praised her work' has the subject doing the action, so it is active.

In C, 'winner received' and 'principal gave' both show subjects doing the action, so both clauses are active.

Here 'game' receives the action 'was won', so the sentence is passive voice.

In this sentence the subject 'team' wins the game, so it is active voice.

In A and C the subject comes first and performs the action of the verb.

Here the subject 'ball' receives the action 'was chased', so the sentence is passive.

The subject 'dog' is doing the action 'chased', so the sentence is active.

In C, 'you' is the subject and is doing the action 'finish', which is active voice.

That pattern shows the subject acting on the object, which is active voice.

In B, the subject 'player' performs the action 'kicked', so it is active voice.

B, C, and E have the subject 'grandmother' performing the action, so they are active.

Forms of 'to be' can appear in both active and passive sentences, so they do not automatically mean passive voice.

B and D place the receiver of the action as the subject and use 'was' plus a past participle.

In active voice, the subject is the one doing the action.