- Communicative Objective: Learn to discuss uncertain, incomplete, contradictory, or open-ended information without oversimplifying it, while distinguishing probability, possibility, inference, and unresolved ambiguity.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- The available evidence is compatible with several interpretations, none of which can yet be ruled out conclusively.
- It may be tempting to attribute the change to a single factor, but the causal picture remains considerably more complex.
- The discrepancy could reflect an error in measurement, although alternative explanations remain equally plausible.
- We should distinguish what can reasonably be inferred from the data from what remains purely speculative.
- In the absence of stronger evidence, the most defensible position is to acknowledge the uncertainty rather than artificially resolve it.
- Grammar Focus: Epistemic modality, passive reporting structures, relative clauses, concessive qualification, extraposition, and infinitive complements for expressing uncertainty.
- Vocabulary Focus: discrepancy, inference, speculative, inconclusive, defensible
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Handling Ambiguity and Uncertainty
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