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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

So

It's from The Independent: "He was told they were empty – simply because the haulier who handed them over, unmarked and undocumented, had said so."

Is the last word in the sentence ('so') an adverb or a pronoun?

Thank you.
  

Top answer

Hi, My dictionary has it as an adverb. 'Haulier' is not a word I know in Modern English, at least not in N. America.

— Clive

  • Hi, My dictionary has it as an adverb.
  • 'Haulier' is not a word I know in Modern English, at least not in N.
  • America.
  • Clive
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Hi,

My dictionary has it as an adverb.

'Haulier' is not a word I know in Modern English, at least not in N. America.

Clive
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CliveHi,
My dictionary has it as an adverb.

'Haulier' is not a word I know in Modern English, at least not in N. America.

Clive
Thanks, Clive, for your reply. 'Haulier', here, means a person that transports goods by lorry; truck driver.
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Hi,

Where is 'here', please?

Clive
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CliveHi,

Where is 'here', please?

Clive
Hi,

I mean the context.
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After some searching I think that I can say that the 'so', here, is neither an adverb nor a pronoun but an equivalent of the noun clause (that-clause, exactly), functioning like a noun; here: so = (that) they were not empty.
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AnonymousAfter some searching I think that I can say that the 'so', here, is neither an adverb nor a pronoun but an equivalent of the noun clause (that-clause, exactly), functioning like a noun; here: so = (that) they were not empty.
Correction: 'so' = (that) they were empty.
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