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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Linguistics Studies

adverb phrase or adverb clause?

Hello,

I'd like to know if the part I'm sure is an adverb clause or an adverb phrase - or possibly neither of it.


You can enjoy your holiday now, I'm sure.
Thanks!
  

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Hi, I'd like to know if the part I'm sure is an adverb clause or an adverb phrase - or possibly neither of it. You can enjoy your holiday now, I'm sure. A sentence like this is characteristic of relaxed and casual speech and grammar.

— Clive

  • Hi, I'd like to know if the part I'm sure is an adverb clause or an adverb phrase - or possibly neither of it.
  • You can enjoy your holiday now, I'm sure.
  • A sentence like this is characteristic of relaxed and casual speech and grammar.
  • I don't see anything adverbial here.
  • Instead, I'd consider these two approaches to understanding what is really meant.
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Hi,

I'd like to know if the part I'm sure is an adverb clause or an adverb phrase - or possibly neither of it.

You can enjoy your holiday now, I'm sure.
A sentence like this is characteristic of relaxed and casual speech and grammar.
I don't see anything adverbial here. Instead, I'd consider these two approaches to understanding what is really meant.

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I think it might be a kind of appositive.  I am not really sure about this because it is not a part of speech that I have researched much.  But certainly inserted or tagged on information that is not clausal is appositive.  One problem with think that it is an appositive is that it is definitely a clause with subject, verb, and complement.  If this is the case, then Clive's punctuation above is c
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This example appears to fit what is called 'non-embedded indirect reported speech' on p1024 of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.  This basically fits with Clive's second (and favourite) suggestion.

Embedded indirect reported speech follows the pattern: 
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