Evidence / Source Signal
How does the speaker know?
의미
A signal that marks whether information is seen, heard, inferred, assumed, reported, remembered, or generally known.
알아보는 방법
Ask whether the sentence shows the source of knowledge.
예시
apparently|I heard|it seems|they say
I heard that|apparently true|it looks like
Apparently, the train is late.
Visual guide
claim: the train is late
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evidence layer:
how does speaker know?
I heard / it seems / apparently
Apparently, the train is late.
Evidence choices: seen -> direct I heard -> heard they say -> reported it seems -> inferred apparently -> indirect
언어별 보기
모국어에서는
Korean has useful inference and hearsay-like patterns, but it is not an obligatory evidential system.
비가 오나 봐요.
It seems that rain is coming.
학습 언어에서는
English has lexical evidential signals such as apparently, reportedly, I heard that, but no broad obligatory evidential system.
Apparently, he left early.
apparently = evidence/source signal
Learners may not distinguish direct knowledge from reported information in formal writing.
Good transfer potential
This block behaves relatively similarly, so you can transfer intuition more safely between the two languages.