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Anonymous Mon May 1 14:11:38 2017 No.9451586 [Reply] [Original]

in the sentence "i had just stopped", is 'just' a qualifier, intensifier, both, or something else?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 1 14:33:24 2017 No.9451660 JUST

>>	Anonymous Mon May 1 14:40:10 2017 No.9451685 >>9451586 It's an adverb, describing when the action happened (i.e., at the same time or immediately before some other implied verb)

>>	Anonymous Mon May 1 16:11:43 2017 No.9452004 >>9451685 what about in >>9451660

>>	Anonymous Mon May 1 16:46:33 2017 No.9452122 >>9452004 My understanding of that meme is that it's a shortened form of 'Just fuck my shit up.' In that case it's also an adverb, synonymous with 'simply.' Maybe with a temporal aspect too, as in 'Let's get right to it and get it over with'

>>	Anonymous Mon May 1 19:10:40 2017 No.9452766 Who fucking cares

>>	Anonymous Mon May 1 19:12:43 2017 No.9452777 >>9452766 this gave me an authentic nerd moment

>>	Anonymous Mon May 1 19:20:16 2017 No.9452799 >>9452777 this

>>	Anonymous Mon May 1 19:22:22 2017 No.9452807 File: 22 KB, 252x249, 1401179525600.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9452122 >>9452766 >>9452777 >>9452799