Read the short dialogue below:

Speaker A: "I think we should postpone the meeting until next week."
Speaker B: "As a matter of fact, I already booked the conference room for Thursday."
Speaker C: "Then we'll have to reschedule."

Identify the pragmatic function of the phrase "as a matter of fact" in Speaker B's utterance and rewrite Speaker B's sentence without this phrase, keeping the same meaning.

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Read the short dialogue below:

Speaker A: "I think we should postpone the meeting until next week."
Speaker B: "As a matter of fact, I already booked the conference room for Thursday."
Speaker C: "Then we'll have to reschedule."

Identify the pragmatic function of the phrase "as a matter of fact" in Speaker B's utterance and rewrite Speaker B's sentence without this phrase, keeping the same meaning.

Accepted Answer

Function: a contrastive discourse marker that introduces factual information. Rewritten sentence: "I already booked the conference room for Thursday."

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