Hedging Exercise Practice
Rewrite these sentences using hedging language – write your ‘hedged’ sentence
underneath the original.
1. Playing violent video games causes more aggression, bullying, and fighting.
Your answer:
1. It is assumed that playing violent video games may cause more aggression,
bullying, and fighting.
2. Mars is the focus of much scientific study and the foremost planet for human
colonization.
Your answer:
2. Mars is certainly the focus of much scientific study and often considered the
foremost planet for human colonization.
3. News reports can never be trusted because of media bias, journalist interpretation
and agenda setting.
