Passives & Relative Clauses — What Your Face Says Before You Speak
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Free ESL grammar exercise on passives & relative clauses themed around what your face says before you speak. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 4 (upper intermediate) ESL grammar exercise on psychology. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Nalini Ambady, who studied rapid judgements, found that opinions are formed within 30 seconds. The participants had never been shown those politicians before.
Grammar
- Passive — present
- First impressions are formed in seconds. — focus on the result, not the person doing it
- Passive — past simple
- The study was published in 2023. — completed action; agent often omitted
Sample items
- The experiment ______ at Princeton University in 2006.
- Alex Todorov, ______ ran the experiment, found that voters judged faces in milliseconds.
- Six universal facial expressions ______ by Paul Ekman in the 1960s.
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