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What does "of necessity" mean? Is it an idiom?



 
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What does "of necessity" mean? Is it an idiom? #1 (permalink) Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:12 am   What does "of necessity" mean? Is it an idiom?
 

Dear teacher,
Why do people use "of necessity" and place it between "will " and "be". Can it replaced with another word?
"There will of necessity be a ceiling to the amount of money put at the new manager's disposal."
And please explain the sentence.
Thanks very much.
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Of necessity #2 (permalink) Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:16 pm   Of necessity
 

Anonymous wrote:
Dear teacher,
Why do people use "of necessity" and place it between "will " and "be". Can it replaced with another word?
"There will of necessity be a ceiling to the amount of money put at the new manager's disposal."
And please explain the sentence.
Thanks very much.

Hi,

You can rewrite this and say: It is necessary that there is/It is necessary for there to be ... Or simply: There must be a ceiling../You have to have ..

The sentence means: There must be a limit (a top limit) to the amount of money that the new manager can use as he wishes.

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Of necessity #3 (permalink) Fri Nov 18, 2005 15:02 pm   Of necessity
 

Dear teacher,
I quickly understand what you have explained. Your explanation is great.
Many thanks to you.
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Of necessity #4 (permalink) Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:01 am   Of necessity
 

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The idiomatic of necessity is an adverb, and as such is relatively mobile, so it can rest comfortably in either of the following positions:

There will of necessity be a ceiling to the amount of money put at the new manager's disposal.

Of necessity, there will be a ceiling to the amount of money put at the new manager's disposal.


After the auxiliary of a verb phrase is a common position for most adverbs:

There will of necessity be...
I have never been married.
You can certainly enjoy pizza here.
He is lovingly dismantling the old Gatling gun.

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