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Revise the Active and Passive Voice

In this worksheet, students will revise changing sentences from the active to the passive voice.

'Revise the Active and Passive Voice' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 3

Year:  Year 7 English worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Grammar and Vocabulary

Curriculum subtopic:   Extend and Apply Grammatical Knowledge

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Worksheet Overview

Sentences can be written in either the active or the passive voice.

 

In an active sentence, the subject is carrying out the action.

For example: The children climbed the tree. 

 

children climbing a tree

 

In this sentence, the children are doing the climbing, so it is an active sentence.

 

In a passive sentence the subject receives the action.

For example: The tree was climbed by the children.

 

The subject (the tree) is not doing the climbing, but being climbed, so it is a passive sentence.

 

Sometimes the agent (the person or thing doing the action) is left out of a passive sentence.

 

For example:

Someone broke the window. (active)

The window was broken. (passive)

 

broken window

 

We could write 'The window was broken by someone' but it sounds clumsy and doesn't add anything to the sentence, so it is better to leave it out.

 

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