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Year 6 · English · Passive voice · Lesson 1

Active and passive sentences

Active and passive sentences: identifying them, forming the passive with be + past participle, and changing between active and passive.

Whiteboard video lesson: Active and passive sentences

14-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Identify active and passive sentences
  • Form the passive
  • Change active to passive
  • Change passive to active

The method

  1. Find doer and receiver.
  2. Receiver first.
  3. was/is/were + past participle.
  4. by + doer.

Key words: active, passive, subject, past participle, voice.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

Active or passive? ‘The boy kicked the ball.’

  1. Step 1: Doer first?

Answer: active

Question 2

Active or passive? ‘The ball was kicked by the boy.’

  1. Step 1: was + -ed

Answer: passive

Question 3

Active or passive? ‘The bridge was built in 1890.’

  1. Step 1: was built

Answer: passive