Application goal: Offering criticism without asserting motives.
May, appears to and suggests help match a claim to the strength of its evidence. Use hedging precisely, rather than hiding missing information or weakening every statement.
Context: Phrasing a professional observation. Identify the wording that achieves this goal, then adapt the details to a situation of your own.
May, appears to and suggests help match a claim to the strength of its evidence. Use hedging precisely, rather than hiding missing information or weakening every statement.
Context: Phrasing a professional observation. Identify the wording that achieves this goal, then adapt the details to a situation of your own.
Practical examples
The current instructions seem to assume a level of technical knowledge that some new staff do not yet have.
يبدو أن التعليمات الحالية تفترض معرفة تقنية لا يمتلكها بعض الموظفين الجدد بعد.
Several users asked for explanations of terms that the guide leaves undefined.
طلب عدة مستخدمين شرح مصطلحات لا يعرّفها الدليل.
This may partly explain why otherwise straightforward tasks required additional support.
قد يفسر هذا جزئيًا احتياج مهام بسيطة في الأصل إلى دعم إضافي.