Emphasizers and Intensifiers; and Style Disjuncts

Guidance will be given to enable you to (a) clearly see the linguistic structures of the following expressions; and (b) readily produce expressions with such structures.
To ensure your success, adequate examples will be further provided with clear explanation.

Emphasizers and Intensifiers

• • I shall definitely be at the airport to meet you.
  • She is certainly intelligent.
  • This is a really challenging mission.
  • That doesn't necessarily follow.
  • I honestly don't know what he wants.
  • I fully appreciate your problem.
  • I entirely agree with you.
  • He is totally unreliable as a source of information.
  • I told him about the problem but he was totally unsympathetic.
  • I almost resigned.
  • He virtually dictated the terms of the transaction.
  • It was merely a matter of finance.
  • They hardly need it at all.
  • She hardly dared to venture an opinion.

Style Disjuncts

• • If you don't mind my saying so, her proposal is better than yours.
  • She is resigning, if you know what I mean.
  • His style is florid, if that's the right word.
  • If I may change the subject, ...
  • If I may be quite frank with you, this policy will provoke a storm of protests.

1Perhaps you are to interpret this to mean: She has been asked to resign.
2‘I’m not sure that florid is the right word.