Hedging Language — The Curse of Knowing Too Much
Grammar: Hedging and diplomatic language in professional communication
Free ESL grammar exercise on hedging language themed around the curse of knowing too much. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising hedging and diplomatic language in professional communication. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Perhaps the best communicators are not the smartest people in the room, but the ones who keep asking what the room needs to hear. If she ignores the audience, she will drown them in detail.
Grammar
- Hedging verbs
- The data seems to suggest a problem. — softens a claim
- Modal hedges
- This could be a risk. — possibility, not certainty
Sample items
- The slide ______ to contain too much detail.
- The board ______ to reject this plan.
- I was ______ if you could shorten the section.
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