The phrase "a thing actually" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the reality or existence of something, often in a context where there may be doubt or misunderstanding.
Example: "I thought it was just a rumor, but it turns out to be a thing actually."
Alternatives: "a real thing" or "an actual thing".
The staged collision that Horowitz describes would have been unthinkable in 1957, but half a century later such a thing actually took place when Nelson Piquet Jr was persuaded to crash in order to help his Renault team-mate Fernando Alonso win the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
1. Are there enough jobs for all job seekers to get paid to do? 2. Is providing big and SME business with free labour really the way forward when such a thing actually reduces the number of jobs available to genuine jobseekers? 3.
While a $99 price may seem extraordinary, IDC Research Director on tablets, Tom Mainelli, says that such a thing actually sounds reasonable.
As John Ruskin put it: "Failure is less frequently attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labour, than to a confused understanding of a thing actually to be done".
Man's perception of himself and the world around him are also constantly questioned; the correspondent regularly refers to the way things "seemed" or "appeared", leaving how a thing actually "was" entirely ambiguous.
If such a thing actually did happen, who was accountable?
"I think it's just a dynamic change to the show, which could be a good thing, actually," he told E OnlineE Online
The fact that I came in second in a couple of primaries — I know some people think that's a devastating thing — actually, I got delegates.
"It was a dangerous thing — actually, it's not really dangerous," he said about an element of his set design, before stopping himself with a laugh.
That was a regular thing actually.
