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A nearby exploding star, or supernova, is almost certainly not the culprit. Well, usually the recipes are common sense, nutritious foods that you might have been cooking already and will certainly want to continue to cook. They certainly are going to be asking questions to witnesses at hearings that their staff suggested.

Nothing's come out of it yet, but they're certainly looking at it. From Voice of America. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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Read More. November 08, To top. English Intermediate Examples Translations. Sign up for free and get access to exclusive content:. Free word lists and quizzes from Cambridge. Tools to create your own word lists and quizzes. Thread starter abhishek31 Start date Jul 11, Friends, I am reading leacock's literary lapses and i am stuck over this phrase,"why certainly". The sentence is,"Sir,would you please oblige with loan of a match? Why can simply be an exclamation.

It can mean that you are surprised or it can simply be added to place some emphasis on the rest of the sentence. You could say "Why, certainly! Copyright Senior Member Penang. I hadn't thought about it before this, but I think I pronounce it as Why with the "h" when it's a question, and Wie when it's adding emphasis.

Greg: Why, certainly! Heh, heh. What does "why, certainly" mean? It doesn't necessarily mean that Greg started to ask "why? Why, yes, I quite agree with khoff. I also don't understand why he laughed when he said it. Teachers: We supply a list of EFL job vacancies. It seems that Greg, while answering John for the first time, says 'why' in a playful manner.