The children are learning how to tie there shoes today during class.
This person was slightly ahead of you.
Example sentence - The children would bustle in from the cold soon.
This sentence makes very little sense. The individual words make sense. "circumvent" requires an object-- something has to be circumvented and unless we know what the children circumvented we can not make sense out of the sentence.
Yes, you can! For example: "I am raising three children."
Abraham Lincoln had a banquet with his wife and children
me and my husband accord to take care our children.
Of the three ill children, the boy was the sickest.
I saw three children riding in a dogcart.
Do not abandon your children. Do not abandon your dogs. Do not abandon me.
The session about friendship encouraged a lot of children to make friends.
The children united their efforts to get better education at their school.
Passive. The subject, "children," is not doing the action. Also, a sentence is passive when a form of the verb "to be" is followed by a past participle- in this sentence it is "were taken." To make the sentence active, it would have to state "Five children went to the zoo" or "Someone took five children to the zoo."