Passive and active voice
Understand the difference between active and passive voice; use passive to affect presentation of information
What you'll learn
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Imagine a superhero 🦸♂️ doing the action — that's the active voice. Now imagine the action happening TO the superhero — that's the passive voice!
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Which sentence is active? The dog 🐕 ate the bone.
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Let's change 'The cat chased the mouse' from active to passive.
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Drag the words to make the passive sentence: 'The cake was baked by Mum.' 🎂
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Which is the passive version of 'The boy kicked the ball'? ⚽
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Change this active sentence to passive: 'The chef cooks dinner.' 👨🍳
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Is this sentence active or passive? 'The window was broken by the wind.' 🌬️
Practise Passive and active voice with Whizlo
Free AI-tutored lessons, unlimited practice questions, and progress tracking for ages 10–11. Aligned to the UK National Curriculum.