Adult ESL ELL Advanced Quiz
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A non-native English speaker is composing a formal email to request a schedule change from her department chair. She drafts: 'I want you to change my office hours from Tuesday to Thursday.' Her language tutor tells her the request is grammatically correct but pragmatically inappropriate for a formal superior-to-subordinate relationship in an academic context.
Which revision most effectively uses modals and hedging to achieve the appropriate level of politeness and indirectness for this professional context, without becoming so hedged that the request is unclear?
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