Hedging & Reframing — Satya Nadella: 'Learn-It-All'
Grammar: Hedging and reframing language in contrast to blunt negative statements, examined through authe
Free ESL grammar exercise on hedging & reframing themed around satya nadella: 'learn-it-all'. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising hedging and reframing language in contrast to blunt negative statements, examined through authe. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
He didn't say the old culture was wrong. He said it was incomplete. "We need to go from a culture of know-it-alls to a culture of learn-it-alls," he told Bloomberg.
Grammar
- Blunt vs reframed
- That's wrong. vs That's incomplete. — same fact, different judgement
- Hedge with modals
- It might be worth treating this as a learning curve. — softens a claim
Sample items
- Nadella didn't call the culture wrong — he called it ______.
- "It ______ be worth treating this as a learning curve," a manager might say.
- Rather than saying 'this failed', try: 'this ______ more time.'
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