Advanced Passive & Nominalisation — The Laundries That Time Forgot
Grammar: Advanced passive constructions and nominalisation
Free ESL grammar exercise on advanced passive & nominalisation themed around the laundries that time forgot. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on society, practising advanced passive constructions and nominalisation. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
What is now known about them represents one of the most extensively documented failures in twentieth-century Europe. The true number is believed to exceed 10,000. The McAleese Report is said to have understated the scale.
Grammar
- Impersonal passive
- Used to report claims without naming a source. It is widely believed that the figures were undercounted by official bodies.
- Passive perfect
- Links a present attribution to a past event. The report is said to have excluded thousands of pre-1922 cases.
Sample items
- People say that the records were deliberately destroyed by the order.
- Experts claim that thousands of additional cases remain unrecorded.
- The government confirmed that it had benefited from the unpaid labour.
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