EnglishYear 6Grammar & Punctuation

Use the passive voice

Recognise and use the passive voice to affect the presentation of information (The cake was eaten vs Someone ate the cake)

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you baked a cake 🎂. If the cake is the star of the sentence, we use the passive voice!

  2. 2

    Which sentence is about the cake being the star? 🎂

  3. 3

    Drag the words to make a passive sentence: The mouse was chased by the cat. 🐱🐭

  4. 4

    Let's turn an active sentence into passive. 'The dog ate the bone.' 🦴

  5. 5

    Now you try! Change 'The girl painted the picture.' into passive voice. 🎨

  6. 6

    Which is the passive version of 'The storm destroyed the house'? 🏠

  7. 7

    In a passive sentence, who or what is the star? 🌟

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