✍️ Academic Hedging Exercises: Printable Worksheets with Answers

Exercise 1: Choose the correct hedge

1. The data ______ a correlation. (suggests / proves) →
2. It ______ that the treatment is effective. (appears / is certain) →
3. This ______ be a coincidence. (might / must) →
4. ______ researchers agree with this view. (All / Many) →

Exercise 2: Rewrite the sentences with hedging

1. Climate change causes extreme weather. →
2. The drug cures cancer. →
3. This proves the hypothesis. →

Exercise 3: Identify over-hedging and correct

1. It might possibly perhaps be true. →
2. The results may perhaps suggest a trend. →