I imagined that education is important sounds odd to my ear. There's a clash of registers of assurance.
I imagined that education was important is a normal way of talking.
What does "There's a clash of registers of assurance." mean?
" mean? I don't think that phrase applies here, and I don't think that 'register' is even the right word choice, but I suppose that the writer means that one part of the sentence seems to express more certainty than the other part.
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I don't think that phrase applies here, and I don't think that 'register' is even the right word choice, but I suppose that the writer means that one part of the sentence seems to express more certainty than the other part.