Expletives
Often ignored, expletives may take up many adverbial syntactic functions. Pragmatically and semantically, they often serve as intensifiers, boosting the content of the clause they appear in.
- What the hell are you talking about?
- I didn't bloody well do that!
- You're freaking lying!
- You bloody well know that smoking's not allowed here!
- He got sodding killed.
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“It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At ... moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.”
—Alice James (1848–1892)