Timeline for Grammatical role of “the hell”?
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| Jan 6, 2015 at 20:55 | vote | accept | painfulenglish | ||
| Jan 1, 2015 at 15:54 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I agree completely. Trying to identify grammatical role from location within the matrix sentence is unprofitable or probably worse. The intensifier is virtually doing the same job as bolding, italicising and adding an exclamation mark would do. So is it the 'bolding-part-of-speech'? I'd put it in the 'pragmatic marker / informal sentence intensifier' category if I felt the need to. | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 10:45 | history | answered | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |