Chapter 5: How Sure You Sound

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   Sprint 5.1: Simple Or Continuous

   Learner chooses the simple form for a general truth and the continuous for a change in progress, and knows that the choice is a claim about the situation.

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   Sprint 5.2: The Perfect And Why It Matters Now

   Learner uses the present perfect to connect a past event to the present argument, and the past simple to close it off, choosing by relevance rather than by time.

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   Sprint 5.3: How Sure Are You

   Learner selects a modal that matches the strength of the evidence they have, across the full range from may to will.

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   Sprint 5.4: Hedging Without Disappearing

   Learner hedges once per claim rather than three times, and stops stacking hedges until the sentence claims nothing at all.

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5. 05

   Sprint 5.5: The Stance You Did Not Mean

   Learner recognises where a modal or an aspect has committed them to a stronger or weaker position than they hold, and corrects it.

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6. 06

   Sprint 5.6: One Stance Across A Paragraph

   Learner holds one level of certainty across a paragraph, and changes it only where the argument changes.

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7. 07

   Sprint 5.7: Course Review — One Paragraph, Every Choice

   Learner writes a Task 2 body paragraph and receives a report across all five chapters, framed as choices rather than errors.

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