2021-02-09
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – sure & surely
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ออกเสียง sure = ‘SHOOR’ or ‘SHUR’
ออกเสียง surely = ‘SHOOR-lee’ or ‘SHUR-lee’
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SYNONYM STUDY FOR SURE
Sure, certain, confident, positive
indicate full belief and trust that something is true.
Sure, certain, and positive are often used interchangeably.
Sure, the simplest and most general, expresses mere absence of doubt.
Certain suggests that there are definite reasons that have freed one from doubt.
Confident emphasizes the strength of the belief or the certainty of expectation felt.
Positive implies emphatic certainty, which may even become overconfidence or dogmatism.
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WORDS OFTEN CONFUSED WITH SURE
Both sure and surely are used as intensifying adverbs
with the sense “undoubtedly, certainly.”
In this use, sure is generally informal and occurs mainly in speech and written representations of speech:
She sure dazzled the audience with her acceptance speech. It was sure hot enough in the auditorium.
Surely is used in this sense in all varieties of speech and writing, even the most formal:
The court ruled that the law was surely meant to apply to both profit-making and nonprofit organizations.
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sure & surely
Correct usage calls for a strict division
between sure (an adjective) and surely(an adverb).
One says “That was a sure sign of his interest”
and “That was surely a sign of his interest.”
In the first sentence, sure qualifies the noun sign;
in the second, surely modifies the verb was.
Sure can be employed informallyas an adverb (sure enough).
But this colloquial use is not recommended
for careful writing.
See also CERTAIN.
