Parenthetical sentences

Parenthetical sentences

A particular type of juxtaposition is offered by the cases of insertion of sentence clauses within a sentence. The pauses and the special melodic contour isolate these sentences within the global statement:

-He already suspected, I imagine, that he would be suspended.

-I did not trust your promise to study daily, I assure you.

Although the semantic link between them is undoubted, there is no syntactic link. They are sentences juxtaposed in a single statement.