Nominalisation & formal register — The Philosopher Inside the Machine
Grammar: Professional register — nominalisation, passive voice, and hedged opinion structures
Free ESL grammar exercise on nominalisation & formal register themed around the philosopher inside the machine. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on technology, practising professional register — nominalisation, passive voice, and hedged opinion structures. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Gabriel brought a perspective that engineers trained in optimisation rarely develop. Over the following decade, he produced a body of work that tracked the ethical challenges created by the rapid rise of large language models.
Grammar: Professional Register
- What is
- Nominalisation converts a verb or adjective into a noun. We examined the risk → The examination of the risk. Adds formality and objectivity.
- Common verb → noun
- decide → decision; develop → development; argue → argument; evaluate → evaluation. Used widely in reports and proposals.
Sample items
- We decided to delay the product launch. → The ______ to delay the product launch was made after extensive review.
- They developed a new framework for evaluating risk. → The ______ of a new framework took eighteen months.
- He argued that transparency is essential. → ______, transparency is essential.
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