5 exercises — practise the frequency hedge "more often than not".
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Which sentence correctly uses "more often than not" as a sentence-initial adverbial hedge?
"More often than not, the flaky test fails because of network latency..." correctly preserves the exact fixed wording "more often than not". Options B, C, and D each substitute or reorder one word, breaking the fixed idiom.
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Which sentence correctly uses "more often than not" in the middle of a clause, between the subject and the verb phrase?
"The deploy script, more often than not, succeeds..." correctly sets off the intact fixed phrase with commas. Options B and C insert an extra "it" inside the fixed phrase. Option D wrongly substitutes "most" for "more".
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Which sentence correctly distinguishes "more often than not" (in most cases) from "always" (in every case, no exceptions)?
"...resolves... more often than not, though it doesn't always succeed..." correctly pairs the hedged majority claim with the honest admission that the stronger absolute claim doesn't hold. Options B, C, and D scramble the two expressions into confusing or ungrammatical combinations.
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Which sentence correctly uses "more often than not" at the end of a clause to summarize a review comment?
"...approve the first version of a PR more often than not" correctly places the fixed phrase intact at the end of the clause. Options B, C, and D scramble the internal word order of the fixed idiom.
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Which sentence correctly uses "more often than not" to hedge a claim about which root cause is most common in postmortems?
"More often than not, the root cause turns out to be..." correctly follows the intact fixed phrase with a comma before the main clause. Option B adds an extraneous "that". Option C inserts an incorrect comma inside the fixed phrase. Option D adds an ungrammatical "is".