This handout will help you understand what the passive voice is, why many professors and writing instructors frown upon it, and how you can revise your paper to achieve greater clarity.
This auto-correcting quiz from the Study Zone at University of Victoria provides ten opportunities to change sentences from active to passive, and vice a versa.
This handout will explain the difference between active and passive voice in writing.
The Guide to Grammar and Writing gives us detailed examples of the passive voice.
Elementary principles of composition.
Links to sites illustrate the differences between active and passive voice, bust some common grammar myths, and will help you write with more clarity.
A homophone is a group of words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings, such as "to, too, and two."
Although About.com specialist Sue Watson is a special education guide, these twenty printable homonym and homophone worksheets will be great for all primary grade students (as well as ESL learners.)
Alan Cooper started his homonyms list in second grade.
"All About Homophones" is a homophone activity workbook that can be purchased in soft-cover or PDF, but the resource I want to share is the free Homophone Machine.
This fun video from PBS' Between the Lions features singer-songwriter Brian McKnight and Cleo Lion singing about "a very unusual H word homophones."
"Do you have good memory? You'll need it when you try to match homophones. Don't know what a homophone is? You'll find out when you play Super Match."
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