Formal register & passive — The Best Job in the World?
Grammar: Professional register — passive voice, nominalisation, and formal business language
Free ESL grammar exercise on formal register & passive themed around the best job in the world?. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on work, practising professional register — passive voice, nominalisation, and formal business language. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
For O'Connor and Hayes, the caretaker model has solved a genuine operational challenge while also generating extraordinary brand visibility at virtually zero marketing cost. Each annual recruitment cycle attracts fresh media coverage and a new wave of applicants.
Grammar: Professional Register
- Passive for distance
- Removes the agent to create objectivity. The decision was taken to relocate the residents in 1953.
- Nominalisation
- Convert verbs to nouns to raise register. They declined → a steady decline was observed over thirty years.
Sample items
- The vacancy ______ on Facebook by Alice Hayes after their previous caretaker resigned.
- Over 23,000 applications ______ within days of the advertisement going live.
- It ______ that the remaining residents should be relocated to the mainland.
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