什麼是hedging langauge 呢? 其實你每天都用到，但你知道該在什麼情況用? 該在什麼情況要避免嗎? 今天就讓我們來探討the usage of hedging language。

什麼時候用最好呢? When do you use it?

讓我們的話不這麼直接

例如:

• Kind of
• Sort of
• Maybe
• Slightly
• Possibly
• Perhaps

當我們不想要講的那麼滿的時候

用在學術界, 法律, 醫學

Introductory verbs – seem, tend, look like, appear to be, think, believe, doubt, be sure, indicate, suggest

Certain lexical verbs – believe, assume, suggest

Modal Adverbs – possibly, perhaps, conceivably

That clauses – It could be the case that…, it might be suggested that…, there is every hope that…