Register & Nominalisation — When Algorithms Dream of Cities

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Free ESL grammar exercise on register & nominalisation themed around when algorithms dream of cities. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.

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A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on technology. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.

This is what urban informatics promises: not a smarter city, exactly, but a more honest one. The findings are reliably humbling.

Nominalisation: The introduction of open data changed planning decisions. — verb → abstract noun phrase as subject
Formal register: Authorities demonstrated a tendency to undercount informal transit. — formal verb phrase replaces casual 'kept missing'

The city decided to share its data publicly. → ______ of the data changed how residents engaged with local government.
Officials failed to count informal transport. → ______ of informal transport distorted the city's planning models.
Rewrite in formal register: 'The app helped planners see what was going on.'

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