Making the Passive Active

French: AQA GCSE (2025 Exams), topic 6.1.6

Making the Passive Active

Any passive sentence can become active. All you need to do is reorder the sentence.

$Passive $$\rightarrow$$ active$

Passive $\rightarrow$ active

La nourriture sera mangée par moi $\rightarrow$ Je mangerai la nourriture.
The food will be eaten by me $\rightarrow$ I will eat the food.
Les gâteaux étaient faits par ma mère $\rightarrow$ Ma mère faisait les gâteaux.
The cakes were being made by my mum $\rightarrow$ My mum was making the cakes.

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How would you make the following sentence active: 'Les voitures sont lavées par Holly'?

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