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Applied Grammar: Grammar and Register

How grammatical choices create formal, neutral, and informal register

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Applied Grammar: Grammar and Register — Practice
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Which is more appropriate in a formal report?
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Nominalise: "The government decided to invest." → "The government's ___ to invest..."
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"___ the lack of evidence that makes this case difficult." (it-cleft, formal)
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Formal version of "I think this might be wrong": "It ___ argued that this may be incorrect."
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Which sentence contains an inappropriate contraction for formal writing?
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Which is a hedged academic claim?
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