Exercises
1Convert: "Researchers discovered that the drug was effective."
Nominalise "discovered" → "discovery" and "effective" → "effectiveness".
2Make impersonal: "I argue that climate change requires urgent action."
Replace "I argue" with "It is argued / It could be argued".
3Add hedging: "Social media causes depression in teenagers."
Use "may", "can", "appears to" to qualify an absolute claim.
4Nominalise: "The government failed to act quickly."
Nominalise "failed" → "failure". The action becomes a noun phrase subject.
5Convert to passive: "Experts have criticised the report."
Passive moves the focus from agent (experts) to the object (report).
6Write a sentence using "It is thought that..." about artificial intelligence.
Impersonal "It is thought that" avoids personal attribution and sounds more authoritative.