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Rerehāngū

Passive Sentences

This resource supports learners to understand and form passive sentence structures using Rerehāngū patterns. 


Ākonga learn passive endings and how meaning shifts when passive voice is used.

  • Identify passive markers such as -tia, -hia, -kia, -mia and apply them correctly

  • Convert active sentences into passive forms to change sentence focus

  • Understand how verbs shift and how passive changes emphasis

  • Apply passive structures through tasks like news headlines, mystery case reports, “what happened here?” clues, and formal-style rewriting

By the end of this resource, learners can form passive sentences confidently using Rerehāngū structures.

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