Halyna D. Malyk Speech Acts and Events

I guess

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M. Laurence The Stone Angel (LSA)

1. 
   He’s okay, I guess. He didn’t say much. He had a half-bread girl there to cook for him last winter, but she went away in spring and didn’t come back.”
   

“To cook, ” I said sourly. “I’ll let.”

LSA , SA, 148

2. 
   Where’s Marvin? I don’t hear either of them moving about downstairs. Can they have gone to bed this early?
   

Every last one of them has gone away and left me. I never left them. It was the other way around, I swear. LSA 145

3. 
   I will be quite, I swear, never open my mounth, not obligingly, keep myself to myself for good and all. And yet, even as I swear it, I know it’s nonsense and impossible for me. I can’t keep my mouth shut. I never could. LSA , 79
   
4. 
   I guess maybe I shouldn’t have told you . LSA , SA, 64
   
5. 
   Full of petunias, I suppose.
   

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  They are – more like hotels, I guess. LSA 65
  

6. 
   “Tina’s to have the brown jug, Doris.”
   

I know. You’ve been telling her that for years.”

“Well? What if I have? I like things properly seen to. Anyway, none of you will get a thing yet. I’m only preparing against the day. But it won’t be for a while yet, I can promise you that? You needn’t think otherwise.

7. 
   I suppose that’s what you’re saying. LSA , 51
   
8. 
   
   

- I find it’s well worth while.

- I want to teach?

- I believe.

LSA, 37
Canstative… LSA , 47

9. 
   
   

- “I guess life must have been quite difficult in those days, eh?”

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  “I guess you grew up on the farm, eh, Mrs Shipley?” LSA 35
  

10. 
    
    

“Care for a little more lemon slice, Mother?”

“No, thank you, Marvin.” LSA 29

11. 
    Who choose Marvin for his name? Bram, I suppose. A Shiplay family name, it was, I think. LSA , 27
    

I think – 73, 81, 96, 106, 129, 239

I believe – 188

I guess – 77, 103, 114, 129, 148, 179, 185, 210, 213, 226, 227, 247, 257

I expect – 89

I hope – 92, 197, 258, 274,

I suppose – 104, 110, 141, 147, 182, 226, 248, 248, 265,