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Here are less tentative sentences. Change them into tentative sentences.

1. Weismann proved that animals become old because, if they did not, there
could be no successive replacement of individuals and hence no evolution.

2. Yet a recalcitrant trustee did not remain in possession of the property
entrusted to him.

3. There are cases where this would have been the only possible method of
transmission.

4. By analogy, one can walk from one point in hilly country to another by a path
which is always level or uphill, and yet a straight line between the points
would cross a valley

Taken from http://www.uefap.com/writing/feature/featfram.htm

Read the following paragraph and rewrite them with tentative expression.

In general, the results were as expected. The participants who had
been born and raised in Australia were able to give and accept
feedback from others in all four contexts. There was no difference
between the responses of those who had arrived in Australia before
puberty and those who had been born here. However, seven of the
eight subjects who had immigrated after puberty experienced
difficulty with Tasks 3 and 4. These results indicate that perceptions
of ‘face’ are established in childhood.

Taken from https://www.monash.edu/rlo/research-writing-assignments/writing/

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