Perfect & Continuous Aspect — The World in 2024: A Business Lens
Grammar: Embedded Questions
Free ESL grammar exercise on perfect & continuous aspect themed around the world in 2024: a business lens. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising embedded questions. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
In 2023, global foreign direct investment fell to $1.3 trillion. The interdependence that defined the post-1990 era has not collapsed, but it has become conditional. The IMF revised its global growth forecast four times in 2023.
Grammar: Embedded Questions
- Perfect aspect
- Global FDI has fallen to its lowest level since 2005. — past event with present significance
- Continuous aspect
- Inflation is retreating across most advanced economies. — process in progress now
Sample items
- The World Bank ______ its forecast three times this year.
- Indonesia ______ nickel export rules in 2020.
- Analysts ______ whether fragmentation will persist.
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