Passive + Nominalisation — Who Speaks for Science?
Grammar: Passive Voice
Free ESL grammar exercise on passive + nominalisation themed around who speaks for science?. 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
By the time it is published — in a journal behind a paywall that most of the public cannot access — the finding it contains has already been distorted, compressed, and re-dressed.
Grammar: Passive Voice
- Advanced passive
- The compound is believed to have inhibited cell growth. — distanced, formal attribution
- Impersonal passive
- It has been established that replication matters. — agent removed for authority
Sample items
- The study ______ to have resolved the debate about replication in social psychology.
- ______ that gatekeeping of knowledge concentrates interpretive authority in few hands.
- The ______ of peer-reviewed findings through open-access platforms has increased public engagement.
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