I am hopeful you can see that the sentence adverbs fortunately and honestly modify the whole sentence in the same way that hopefully did in the previous example. Nobody has ever written in complaining about sentences like these:įortunately, the chocolate was out of reach. Other words that can function as sentence adverbs include fortunately and honestly, and for some reason these are less controversial than hopefully. Hopefully means I'm hopeful I'll get some of that chocolate. You see, adverbs modify verbs, but they can also modify other adverbs or, as they do in this case, whole sentences.
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In that sentence, hopefully is behaving like a sentence adverb. Squiggly is looking in a hopeful manner at the chocolates.īut about 300 years later, people started using hopefully to mean “I hope,” as in Hopefully, I'll get some of that chocolate. Paul is correct that hopefully is an adverb in that sentence. Here's the deal: the traditional use of hopefully, which goes back to at least the 1600s, is to mean “in a hopeful manner,” as in Squiggly looked hopefully at the box of chocolates. I don't know what's going on in her head when she does this, but here's what's going on in my head when it happens to me: I just happened to hear the Business Week reporter right when I needed a clip. I don't mean to pick on the speaker here-as I said, I do this a lot. Here's what a self-correction sounds like this one’s from last week's Business Week podcast: If you've ever heard me give a radio interview, you've probably heard me self-correct this problem. The problem Paul is talking about is when people start a sentence with “hopefully” instead of “I hope.” No one thinks it does, except for the author of this awful post, who made the absurd claim that hopefully is “most commonly used” as a verb.As an Amazon Associate and a Affiliate, QDT earns from qualifying purchases. We've got huge problems with the economy (which hopefully is now turning around), Iraq (thanks to Bush's idiocy), Afghanistan (again, thanks to Bush), North Korea - it's good to see that there are people still paying attention to the smaller problems and trying to find ways to fix them.
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In the case of Paulin hopefully some book learning and voice modulation lessons and in Sanfords case a serious search for a new spiritual advisor.ģ65 tomorrows » 2010 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day They want to be the BEST worshipper, which results in hopefully amusing ways as they constantly seek to outworship the other one.
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I need a woman with eyes like rodin, see the body caught within the stone more responsibility."Īd Track: Scandals tarnish celebrity endorsementsĮssentially, you send in the manuscript, the editor sends you and editorial letter, you make the changes, the book goes back, hopefully is accepted - and the next time you see it it's got all these blue and red pencil marks all over it. With their names on it, he says, stars may be "more invested in the relationship which hopefully translates into more trust. The benefit to readers, new readers hopefully, is revealing the world of comic books, and it's genius!įree Comic Book Day arrives at local comic shops I wish I could say I felt the moist eyes of my family and friends staring out hopefully from the observation enclosure.ģ65 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day The thing is, you have already said what you want to say in your title hopefully, so how about we just Tweet the title and a link?