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- hi welcome to this presentation on hedging language sometimes called cautious words and phrases so this presentation will include a definition
- it will talk about four key areas of hedging introductory verbs adverbs of frequency modal adverbs adjectives and nouns and that clauses and some
- exercises to finish off everything I talked about today is on our website and there's downloadable worksheets academic English UK comm / hedging okay so a
- definition an important feature of academic writing is the concept of cautious language often called hedging or vague language in other words it is
- necessary to make decisions about your stance on a particular subject or the strength of the claims you are making if you're not sure about how strong and how
- factual your terms or your ideas are then you soften your language through hedging so we start with introductory verbs these are your verbs like seem
- tend assume appear to be think believe doubt indicate suggest is likely to be an example sentence scientists believe the population growth will peak in the
- next 20 years softening okay next adverbs of frequency these your adverbs such as often sometimes usually rarely regularly
- generally typically an example would be it is often stated the population growth will peak in the next 20 years rather than it it is stated okay modal verbs
- this year modal's will must would may might could and can and an example would be scientists believe that popular Ruth could peek in the next 20 years
- so rather than well could this soften were not really sure modal adjectives certain definite clear probable and possible similar sentence it is probable
- that population growth will peak in the next 20 years modal adverbs certainly definitely clearly probably possibly perhaps
- conceivably arguably it is possibly true that population growth will peak in the next 20 years
- modal nouns so this is taking over an adjective and using the noun form assumption possibility probability certainty conception and argument yeah
- there is a probability the population growth will peak in the next 20 years finally that clause is it could be the case that it could be argued that it may
- be assumed that it might be suggested that there is every possibility that it could be argued that population growth will peak in the next 20 years that
- Clause is so you get the idea of softening our statements just to show that we are not a hundred percent sure and these are not scientific facts that
- have been proven overwhelmingly so now it's your terms please pause this slide read these sentences and just try and rewrite them or put in hedging language
- okay the answers again pause this slide and have a look there's more than one answer for any of these sentences but this is just a general idea
- how to hedge structures into your sentences okay that's the end of today's presentation if you'd like more information on
- academic writing go to our website academic English UK comm thank you
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