Advanced Passive Reporting — When a Doctor Drank the Evidence
Grammar: Passive Voice
Free ESL grammar exercise on advanced passive reporting themed around when a doctor drank the evidence. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on science, practising passive voice. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
"It had been established, more or less, since the 1950s." A spiral-shaped bacterium was isolated repeatedly from the stomach lining of ulcer patients.
Grammar: Passive Voice
- Passive reporting
- It has been established that the bacterium causes ulcers. — current accepted fact, agent unknown or irrelevant
- Complex passive
- The compound has since been found to inhibit the stomach lining. — finding + effect in one construction
Sample items
- It ______ that moderate exercise reduces the risk of heart disease significantly.
- The new molecule ______ to reduce inflammation in early-stage trials.
- It ______ that the original sample had been contaminated before testing began.
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