Level 5Sciencegrammar

Future embedded questions — Why You Will Always Sound Like You

Grammar: Embedded Questions

Free ESL grammar exercise on future embedded questions themed around why you will always sound like you. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.

What's on this worksheet

A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on science, practising embedded questions. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.

From the reading

Nobody is quite sure yet whether there is a way to reopen the window. Researchers wonder whether this neural separation is what makes it so hard to pass for a native speaker.

Grammar: Embedded Questions

Embedded Q + will
Nobody knows whether dialects will survive the next century. — speculative future inside a noun clause
Embedded Q + may/might
I wonder whether the window may reopen with intensive training. — softer speculation; hedge with may or might

Sample items

  1. I wonder whether accent fossilisation ______ fully reversed in adults.
  2. Nobody knows how quickly the dominant language of a workplace ______ to change.
  3. Scientists are asking whether neural plasticity ______ in speakers over forty.

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