Leadership Hedging Speculation BE - Exercise Worksheet

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Hedging & Speculation

Article excerpt · target grammar marked

What separates a prescient prediction from a lucky guess? The best predictors hold beliefs loosely — updating when evidence shifts rather than defending a position. They think in probabilities: not this will happen but this is more likely than most people assume.

Grammar Reference · Hedging & Speculation

Modal hedges

Use could, might, may to signal possibility without claiming certainty. This could indicate a broader shift.

Probability framing

Frame predictions as likelihood comparisons. This is more likely than most analysts assume.

Appear / seem

Use appear to be or seem to suggest for formal distancing. The data appears to indicate a trend.

Common error

Avoid stacking certainty adverbs with hedges. This definitely might happen. ✗ → This might well happen. ✓

01Exercise 1 — Form · Write the Correct Form

Hedging & Speculation

1.The shift in consumer behaviour affect every company in this sector.

2.There a reasonable case to be made that remote work is here to stay.

3.Demand for healthier products to be growing across most markets.

4.It plausible that streaming would eventually replace physical rental.

5.The data suggest that clients are slowly shifting their budgets.

6.This trend well have implications for how we structure our teams.

02Exercise 2 — Transform

rewrite with the new structure

1.I am sure that companies will offer four-day weeks within five years.

2.AI will definitely change every knowledge-worker role.

3.Clients are going to demand more sustainability data from their suppliers.

4.The office will become less important in the next decade.

03Exercise 3 — About You

in your notebook

Personalise: complete five sentences about yourself using the target grammar.

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