Boosting
Boosting in academic texts, to make a claim more assertively, is often carried out by the use of a range of adverbial and prepositional constructions (plus some other types of expression). Common boosting expressions include adverbs such as:
categorically indisputably
plainly
certainly inevitably undeniably clearly irrefutably
undoubtedly
definitely observably
unquestionably emphatically
obviously
This is clearly a very restrictive hypothesis, which requires verification, and Lightfoot suggests that language change represents a useful testing ground.While most people were indisputably poor, the economy had a considerable surplus above basic subsistence needs, although much of that surplus was concentrated in the hands of those in the top 10 per cent or so of the income distribution.Yet utilities and transport unquestionably provide a service rather than a commodity.
Other expressions used in boosting include:
For sure / certain It is/was clear/obvious/indisputable/... that There is/was no doubt that ... without doubt
It was clear that the Danes would remain neutral, although they offered to approach Catherine II in order to sound her out on a possible settlement.In the early nineteenth century this was without doubt true of much of the Nord region and the Normandy textile area.