Hedging Technique We hedge in order to be more polite. The positive aspect balances the negative comment/criticism/information we want to give.

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Hedging Technique Warhols Bottles of Coke

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Hedging Technique Warhols Mao Tse Tung, 1972

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Hedging Technique Choose one painting and list your positive and negative observations using complete sentences. Positive: The subject is interesting. Negative: The colors are annoying.

Hedging Technique You now have complete sentences that we will combine. A sentence is an Independent Clause. The colors are annoying. In English, a clause has a subject & a verb. examples: a sentence or a Subordinating clause. A subordinating clause is a Dependent Clause. Although the subject is interesting,

Hedging Technique Lets combine these two clauses to make one sentence. A Subordinating clause / Dependent Clause + An Independent Clause = 1 complex sentence Although the subject is interesting, the colors are annoying. NOTE: Use a comma!

Hedging Technique Now you try! Combine the sentences from your chart to make a longer, complex sentence. Take a positive sentence and add a Subordinator (to make a Dependent ADV Clause). – Then write down your comma! Next add a negative sentence (Independent Clause) – And end this new complex sentence with a period.

Hedging Technique Now you try! Answer your group questions about the textbook topics using this hedging technique. Take a positive sentence and add a Subordinator (to make a Dependent Subordinating Clause). – Then write down your comma! Next add a negative sentence (Independent Clause) – And end this new complex sentence with a period.

Hedging Technique More Subordinators: because since so that just as... so... although even though though whereas while