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Hedging and boosting

Softening and strengthening a claim on purpose.

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  • English Grammar

Related concepts

  • Cleft sentences
  • Concessive and contrastive structures
  • Discourse markers in extended argument
  • Inversion and fronting for emphasis
  • Marked and unmarked word order in writing
  • Nominalization

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  • Concessive and contrastive structures

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