Aspect & nuance: tentativeness and distance
Grammar · Aspect & nuance · C2 · 20 min. Use past and progressive forms to soften requests, suggestions and bad news.
About this worksheet
Use past and progressive forms to soften requests, suggestions and bad news.
- Level
- C2
- Category
- Grammar
- Topic
- Aspect & nuance
- Time
- About 20 minutes
- Exercises
- Gap-fill, Multiple choice, Speaking / writing task, Writing lines
- Answer key
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On the sheet
- Gap-fill: Make each request or statement more tentative. Use the past progressiv
- Multiple choice: Choose the best answer.
- Speaking / writing task: Rewrite this blunt email to a landlord so that it sounds polite and te
- Writing lines: Write here.
