Modal Passives — certainty — Who Gets Blamed?
Grammar: Passive Voice
Free ESL grammar exercise on modal passives — certainty themed around who gets blamed?. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 4 (upper intermediate) ESL grammar exercise on environment, practising passive voice. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Environmental journalists and campaign groups have argued for decades that this kind of framing could have been used deliberately to deflect blame and delay binding commitments on carbon emissions.
Grammar: Passive Voice
- Modal passive
- The damage may have been underestimated for years. — past possibility, uncertain
Sample items
- The scale of the deforestation ______ (underestimate) by the government for at least a decade.
- The carbon emissions ______ (reduce) much sooner if the treaty had been ratified in 2005.
- All agentless constructions ______ (remove) from future environmental reports by international law.
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