Hedging with modal verbs

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to avoid

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being seen as arrogant or to express

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ideas that you're not sure are accurate

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very useful in addition to other

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structures we often use modal verbs like

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May might and could combined with

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hedging adverbs like potentially or

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conceivably this really takes your

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language to a C1 level like in this

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sentence opening an office in that

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region could potentially lead to

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lucrative

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Partnerships polite and

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professional at C1 you'll learn about

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some of the more advanced uses of moduls

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for example you'll learn the difference

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between you might have told me that the

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meeting had been cancelled and you might

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have told me that the meeting had been

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cancelled so the first one means maybe

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you did I can't remember and the second

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one means you should have told me the

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sentences are identical in speech the

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tone of voice would be different but in

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writing you'd have to work out the

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meaning from the context okay on to the

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next grammar points clefted sentences

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and inversion they're my favorites and

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my students love learning these

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structures too both are used for

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emphasis we'll start with cleft

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sentences with this structure we take

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one message Mage and we split it into

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two emphasizing a certain part by

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putting it in