Question 1
Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting answer for every blank.
Stephen King, on the Huge Turnout at His Book Signing Events:
Uh…I’m scared. [i] _____, I don’t understand why this is happening. They come out and it’s wonderful and [ii] _____ I’d be worried about my future– my livelihood– if they didn’t, but you wonder [iii] _____ what is driving them or motivating them and I feel terrible because they stand in line and I can only be one person and move about [only] so fast.
Around Christmas time, [iv] _____, I come out to do it because it’s a way of saying thanks to the people who bought the books, [and] [v] _____, allowed me to do what I want to do, which is to write.
Transcribed from: “Stephen King Book Signing.” YouTube, uploaded by Donald Seavey, 14 Oct. 2008.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Fill in blank [i] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.
You mean
I mean
Such as
Absolutely