The guidelines are that parentheticals 'need' setting off. However, with single-word pragmatic markers used medially they can certainly be omitted in some cases at least. (They can, certainly, also be …

Sep 5, 2020 · In fact is a cohesive device. It connects the current sentence to what has come before. So it is difficult to suggest an alternative or even comment on its necessity unless we know what comes …

Nov 18, 2014 · The three expression are actually synonyms with different registers. As a matter of fact and in point of fact sound more formal and as Ngram shows they are by far less common than the …

Jan 9, 2015 · You're detecting the difference in nuance well. Indeed comes from deed as in "action" or "fact" (rather than "thought" or "speech") and so the meaning of "in deed" and hence indeed is very …

The following quote from Anthony Burgess has a comma after it: There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in w...

Feb 29, 2016 · Don't be confused by the repetition of 'half'. Break down the sentence and you'll see what Bilbo meant soon enough. As for another way to interpret it... it's a bit of a 'if the shoe fits' thing, …

Oct 31, 2025 · But this seems unsuitable for the person which seems to be trustworthy but infact not. The above mentioned Urdu phrase (دو نمبر) describes anything collectively like "a fake or low-quality …

Aug 13, 2015 · A 'positive kind of "envy" without the sense of resentment' is, of course, envy. While the OED (for envy, noun) comes out punching with definition 3a The feeling of mortification and ill-will …

Jul 15, 2014 · Is there a specific word such as racism or sexism that describes discrimination based solely on handedness?

Dec 20, 2020 · Your #3 here awkwardly piles passive on passive. And in #4 the active started seems to attribute active agency, incongruously, to something that within the same sentence is passively to be …