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Professional Register — Reinvention Is a Strategy

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Free ESL grammar exercise on professional register themed around reinvention is a strategy. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.

What's on this worksheet

A Business English ESL grammar exercise on leadership. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.

From the reading

What separates Madonna from peers who enjoyed shorter careers is her willingness to retire a version of herself before the market does it for her. Each pivot was deliberate, visually complete, and commercially successful.

Grammar

Passive for distance
Use the passive to sound objective. The decision was made after careful review. Removes personal blame or claim.
Nominalisation
Convert verbs to nouns for formal register. She decided → Her decision. Sounds more authoritative in reports.

Sample items

  1. The new policy ______ announced at last week's board meeting.
  2. Her ______ of the brand took nearly two years to complete.
  3. It ______ be argued that personal branding is now a core professional skill.

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