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Hello everyone,
What do "see" and "guess what" mean in the following paragraph?
Every day they got angrier and then they said ,"here's a gun, a pickaxe and a spade. Find it yourself!"Then they all went aboard and left me here. But I've been busy these three years, see?
And guess what? He winked at me.
Source: treasure island, chapter: The man of the island
Regards,
JA
Top answer
see is a short form way of asking 'Do you see? ' It's rhetorical, meaning that the speaker does not expect an answer. See?
- see is a short form way of asking 'Do you see?
- ' It's rhetorical, meaning that the speaker does not expect an answer.
- See?
- guess what?
- This is a short form way of asking the listener what he thinks will come next in the story.
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see is a short form way of asking 'Do you see? Do you understand?'
It's rhetorical, meaning that the speaker does not expect an answer. See?
guess what? This is a short form way of asking the listener what he thinks will come next in the story. Again, it's rhetorical, no answer expected.
Both of these utterances have no real purpose, and in a sense are just ver
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