Modal Passive — Hedging — Your Brain Is Easily Fooled
Grammar: Passive Voice
Free ESL grammar exercise on modal passive — hedging themed around your brain is easily fooled. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on technology, practising passive voice. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Researchers at MIT and the University of Cambridge have been studying exactly this moment — and what they found should be noted by anyone who works alongside an algorithm. The result may be attributed to something more fundamental than laziness.
Grammar: Passive Voice
- Modal passive
- This could be argued to be a design flaw. — softens a claim, no named speaker
- Impersonal passive
- It should be noted that oversight remains limited. — formal, detached attribution
Sample items
- It ______ that the algorithm was never tested on a sufficiently diverse dataset.
- The high error rate in the early trials ______ the team's decision to rush the deployment.
- It ______ that the oversight process was inadequate from the beginning.
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