Hedging & Discourse Markers — Who Picks Up the Tab?
Grammar: Discourse markers and hedging language
Free ESL grammar exercise on hedging & discourse markers themed around who picks up the tab?. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on money, practising discourse markers and hedging language. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
The round system tends to produce resentment. In theory, it operates as a mutual credit arrangement; in practice, someone always nurses a lager on their turn. As Austin-Williams puts it, agreeing the system before ordering removes the ambiguity.
Grammar: Discourse Markers
- Hedging with 'tend to'
- Use tend to to soften generalisations. These conversations tend to produce resentment. Avoids over-claiming.
- Attribution: 'as X
- Distance yourself from a claim by attributing it. As Holder puts it, money sits at the intersection of identity and value.
Sample items
- These arguments ______ feel like conflicts about money when they are really about fairness.
- ______ the round system is elegant;... it creates resentment.
- ______ Larsgaard puts it, cheapness is saving money at someone else's expense.
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