Express a stance: Med Argumentative

How to express a stance: Med Argumentative (75%~90% authoritative)

Authors mean to promote their ideas by expressing probablity or high frequency. Three key linguistic items,
(1) modal auxiliaries,
(2) higher possibility or frequency adverbs (and sometimes adjectives), and
(3) highlighting mental verbs are used.

Learning Objectives & Strategies:
Familiarize with the linguistic patterns for expressing Med Argumentative stance.
1. Find the linguistic patterns for expressing Med Argumentative below
2. Then search by the linguistic patterns (keywords, pre/suffix, tense, etc.) you found in the "Stance Sentence Examples"page.xHere is a reference list for you.
3. You can also compare the linguistic expressions across the 4 stances in "Distinguishing the 4 stances")

(key linguistic expressions in red)

Sentence Types (What is this?)

Linguistic Expressions

	Modal Auxiliary	Higher possibility or frequency Adverb
1) S.+ Active verbs (e.g. contribute to, reflect, require, present)	can, may	probably, a lot, most, much, often, always, largely, frequently, [negative] rarely, barely, hardly, little, etc.
2) Passive form (e.g. It is made of.., We are expected to…)	can, may	same as above
3) Be verb+ n or adj (e.g. This is a dilemma, The study is significant.)	can, may	same as above
4) I or We + mental verb to highlight (e.g. I believe, We suspect)	can, may	same as above