I heard a lot that people use sentences like I like fruit, say, an apple, or he has, say, a thousand dollars. What about I get, guess, a hundred dogs.
Answer
It took me a while to understand your question: you are asking whether you can use guess as a parenthetical on its own, like say, yes?
The answer is "no". I can’t think of any other verbs that can be used in that way: I was considering "suppose"; but although it can be used without a subject (eg Suppose we went that way) I don’t think it gets used in the middle of a clause like say.
I guess is fine in that context. So are I suppose, I think, I remember, and many others .
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Source : Link , Question Author : ABU , Answer Author : Colin Fine
