Cover of the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5A - No time for anything for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press

Question

Read the sentences about mindfulness and focus on the highlighted phrases. What effect would it have on the meaning if they were left out?

Answer

The highlighted expressions all distance the writer from the information, i.e. they imply that it might not be a definite fact. If they were left out, the information in each sentence would be presented as a definite fact.

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