BE Grammar for Writing: Hedging and Boosting

Finish the sentence:

Hedging language is used to ...

• make your writing more cautious.

• make your writing stronger.

• make your writing both more cautious and stronger.

Finish the sentence:

Boosting language is used to ...

• make your writing more cautious.

• make your writing stronger.

• make your writing both more cautious and stronger.

Which type of language is used to make your writing more academic and accurate?

• hedging language

• boosting language

• both hedging and boosting language

Which type of language is used to strengthen your argument?

• hedging language

• boosting language

• both hedging and boosting language

Which type of language is polite and helps the writer not to sound overconfident and arrogant?

• hedging language

• boosting language

• both hedging and boosting language

Choose the best word for the gap.

Pollution ______________ the greatest environmental challenge of this century.

• is

• may be

Choose the best word for the gap.

Incomplete sentences are _______________ found in students' essays.

• often

• always

Choose the best word for the gap.

The increase in rainfall _________________ cause rivers to overflow later this year.

• will

• could

Choose the word which has the strongest meaning.

• probable

• certain

• possible

• unlikely

Choose the phrase which has the weakest meaning.

• Much evidence suggests

• It is widely accepted that

• It is clear that

• Some evidence suggests