Subject grammar profiles

Science

Science writing reports processes, explains causes and states general truths. These four structures do most of that work.

Passive voice

Scientific writing usually focuses on the process, not the person doing it. Students need it for methods and for explaining natural processes.

The ___ was ___ for ___ minutes.

Explanations link a change to its cause. Students need connectives and verbs that show causation to explain results.

When ___ increases, ___ because ___.

Processes are often turned into nouns, as in evaporate becoming evaporation. It makes science texts dense and harder to read.

The ___ of ___ causes ___.

Scientific facts are written in the present simple, even when the experiment happened in the past.

___ conduct electricity because ___.