Level 5Psychologygrammar

Advanced Passive & Hedging — The Animal You'd Choose Says Everything

Grammar: Advanced passive constructions and hedging language

Free ESL grammar exercise on advanced passive & hedging themed around the animal you'd choose says everything. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.

What's on this worksheet

A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on psychology, practising advanced passive constructions and hedging language. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.

From the reading

The crow is currently regarded by many researchers as one of the most cognitively complex animals on Earth. It is known to use tools, recognised to hold grudges, and believed to mourn its dead.

Grammar

Reporting verb passive
Use is believed/thought/said/known/reported + to-infinitive to distance a claim. The crow is known to use tools.
Impersonal passive
Use It is argued/claimed/suggested + that-clause when no agent is named. It is suggested that crows can recognise faces.

Sample items

  1. Many people believe the wolf ______ (be) a solitary hunter, but it is deeply social.
  2. ______ that our animal choices reveal more about desire than knowledge.
  3. Goodall's methods ______ (consider) inappropriate by her contemporaries.

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