Is this true?
Seemingly, appears to be , apparently - all these are contrasts words in RC questions but not in TC questions?
I don’t think so.
Seemingly, appears to be, apparently–these words and phrases can be classified as hedges or hedging.
Hedges, in layman terms, are just vague words, phrases, or clauses, whose job is to make things fuzzier or less fuzzy–not to seem some propositions absolute in academic prose.
The pragmatic, practical functions of hedges are to qualify, limit, and soften statements, opinions, and claims, as well as to express a degree of vagueness, indirectness, and politeness.
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