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

2. Hedging Technique Warhols Marilyn 1962

3. Hedging Technique Warhols Bottles of Coke

4. Hedging Technique Warhols Flip-flops

5. Hedging Technique Warhols Mao Tse Tung, 1972

6. Hedging Technique Warhols Campbells Soup

7. 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.

8. 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,

9. 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!

10. 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.

11. 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.

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