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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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what does hereby mean in this sentence ''I hereby vow to...''?

1b01font00I, John Doe, 01i01font00hereby02font02i00 vow to surrender my position to Peter if ...02font02b02br
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01font00What is the 01font00purpose 02font00of using 01i01b00hereby02b02i00 in the above sentence?02font00 To me, above sentence looks fine without01i00 hereby02i00.0-
  

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1b00by this means: 02b00by means of this declaration, document, or ruling00 ( 00formal00 ) 02br
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00Obviously he is anouncing something.0-
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0 01b00hereby 02b02br
00 adverb FORMAL OR LEGAL02br
00with these words or with this action:02br
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01i00I hereby pronounce you man and wife.02i02br
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00Formal words like 'hereby', 'herewith', 'hereafter', 'heretofore', etc. are part of the leg
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00Why do you change your signature so often? Where did you get the sentence from? Can you explain what it means?02br
00By the way, the comma should be next to "Read", not before "Mohamed".02br
00Read ,01b00Mohammed!02b00" *** told him first.02br
01b00Read,02b00 Mohammed ...02br
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0 I don't like using/doing same things.By the way, thanks for your correction.Next time I will use one of my grandmother's quotation about education.I choose quotations about education no other aim.I took it from Koran it tells us the importance of education Islam gives and *** commands his illiterate prophet to read and write first. 0-
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00You are using and explaining that quote from Qur'an in rather wrong way. Well, we will discuss it some other time. Thank you very much for always helping me.0-
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0Jackson from ****,05000 you are welcome and I am pleased if I could help you.010id2
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0 I think almost every sentence that contains 'hereby' would actually be ok even without it, it just wouldn't have the same meaning. In fact, the word 'hereby' adds additional information about the purpose of a document or of a speech.0-
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0 I, 01b00promise with this (or: by means of this)02b00 to 0-

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