Passive Voice — Professional — The Algorithm Decides
Grammar: Passive Voice
Free ESL grammar exercise on passive voice — professional themed around the algorithm decides. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising passive voice. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
In 2018, Amazon scrapped a recruiting tool it had been developing for four years after engineers discovered it was consistently downgrading applications from women. The system had been trained on a decade of historical hiring data.
Grammar: Passive Voice
- Present simple passive
- Thousands of CVs are screened each week. — subject receives the action; agent often omitted
- Past simple passive
- The tool was scrapped after the bias was discovered. — completed past event, agent optional
Sample items
- The new software ______ across all offices last quarter.
- Candidate profiles ______ by the algorithm before any recruiter sees them.
- The bias ______ only after the system had been running for two years.
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