Tham khảo tài liệu 'teaching academic esl writing part 34', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 318 CHAPTER 12 in front of the main verb if the main sentence verb is not be all examples are from student texts Scientists generally usually often think that by conducting research on human cloning they will make a better quality human kind in the future. The definition of workplace competence has frequently seldom occasionally included learning new knowledge and skills. after be if the main sentence verb is be This definition is frequently usually sometimes too broad. The reasons for the change are generally often not outside education but they are connected to it. In many cases uses of frequency adverbs are accompanied by the present simple tense. Possibility hedges can be used as adjectives with nouns a probable possible cause reason and as adverbs in practically all other constructions . with verbs adjectives whole sentences and other adverbs . Such adverbial hedges as prob ably perhaps possibly and in this that case are particularly common in formal academic writing Hyland 1998 and similar to frequency adverbs they are lexically and syntactically easy to use. The placement rules of these adverbs follow those for frequency adverbs. Other types of possibility hedges are more characteristic of the conversational than the formal written register . by some any chance hopefully and conditional clauses employed as clichés as in if you know understand what I mean to say if you catch get my meaning drift or as everyone the reader knows . As with adverbs of frequency possibility hedges are not particularly complicated to teach. For instance formal possibility hedges can be added to a student s sentences and conversational hedges and overstatements deleted as in 1 and 2 7 Statistics is perhaps the newest science of mathematics. In our society it is probably used everywhere in many places for many purposes . 2 As everyone knows Good careful judgment is possibly probably the most important characteristic of a professional engineer. In these two excerpts possibility
