Active Verbs for Discussing Ideas. This handout is available for download in PDF format. Active verbs are important components of any academic writing! Just as in other forms of writing, they work as ...

Recruiters often see the same action words on a resume - led, responsible for, managed. And quite frankly, they have lost their meaning when it comes to properly communicating your accomplishments. So ...

It seems rather obvious how to identify an action verb: It does something active. Active verbs like gobble, decide, shimmy, impeach and frolic tell us the action being performed in a sentence. Linking ...

The online column titled, guide to grammar.org. provides these examples: Active: “The executive committee (do-ers) approved the new policy.” (receiver) Passive: “The new policy (receiver) was approved ...

“My least favorite active verb is ‘managed,’ but there are others equally as tepid such as ‘established,’ ‘defined,’ and ‘performed,’" Cenedella writes in his new book, Ladders ...

Students will compare and contrast the effectiveness of active verbs versus passive verbs. Students will analyze the purpose of an object in a painting relative to its action. Students will compose a ...

Prefer the active, if you will, but when you want to focus on the receiver, the victim – be it bunion or chimp – the passive rules. There, I said it. In the active voice.