Embedded Questions — When a Expert Forgot How to Explain
Grammar: Embedded questions and hedged professional language
Free ESL grammar exercise on embedded questions themed around when a expert forgot how to explain. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on psychology, practising embedded questions and hedged professional language. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
She watched the tappers closely. Once you know something, it becomes almost impossible to imagine not knowing it. Perhaps the best communicators ask what their listeners can use, and they cut the rest.
Grammar
- Embedded question
- I wonder what the audience needs. — no auxiliary inversion
- Yes/no embedded
- Could you tell me whether they have read it? — use if/whether
Sample items
- I wonder what the listeners ______ while the tappers knocked.
- Could you tell me ______ the audience will act on this?
- Do you know where Bitzer ______ his essay?
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