Katherine99
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How is "I think" functioning in the above sentence.
It was, I think, the happiest day of my life.
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Frank Antonson1
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I would call that "parenthetic". As such, it can be anything. For example, "It was (Achoo! [Excuse me]) the happiest day of my life." Punctuation system is ready for such. Commas can work that way too.
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Sorry, Frank, I don't understand what you meant by that fragment.
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