GrammarYear 6Sentence Structure

Passive and active voice

Understand the difference between active and passive voice; use passive to affect presentation of information

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine a superhero 🦸‍♂️ doing the action — that's the active voice. Now imagine the action happening TO the superhero — that's the passive voice!

  2. 2

    Which sentence is active? The dog 🐕 ate the bone.

  3. 3

    Let's change 'The cat chased the mouse' from active to passive.

  4. 4

    Drag the words to make the passive sentence: 'The cake was baked by Mum.' 🎂

  5. 5

    Which is the passive version of 'The boy kicked the ball'? ⚽

  6. 6

    Change this active sentence to passive: 'The chef cooks dinner.' 👨‍🍳

  7. 7

    Is this sentence active or passive? 'The window was broken by the wind.' 🌬️

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