Not the literal act of sending, that’s one button, and it’s pretty basic. You can then use either the adjective or the adverb both are defensible grammatically and both are in respectable use.Sending emails can be surprisingly tricky. The same applies to “most importantly” it should be “most important.” Īmerican commentators seem to object to the adverb and recommend the adjective. It is rarely correct to use this form of the phrase because it is seldom adverbial in intention.
When speakers are trying to impress audiences with their rhetoric, they often seem to feel that the extra syllable in “importantly” lends weight to their remarks: “and more importantly, I have an abiding love for the American people.” However, these pompous speakers are wrong. For instance, Washington State University English professor Paul Brians writes: Writers have claimed that the preferable phrase should be "more (or most) important". 477/1 Most importantly, when the particles of the pair are brought together, they annihilate. 88 More importantly, Shakespeare, though using Holinshed as his main source, occasionally used Hall as the direct source of various passages. 45 309 Just as importantly, the chart is of extreme value in forming any decisions as to the desirability of modifying‥the track. This commonly used sentence adverbial phrase has been decried by some grammarians.
"Hopefully" is an example of a word whose use as a disjunct ("it is hoped") is sometimes controversial. Others include "mercifully," "gratefully," "oddly," "admittedly," etc. "Unfortunately", however, is only one of many sentence adverbs that can modify a speaker's attitude. "Unfortunately" thus communicates the regret or disappointment the speaker experiences and so manifests as a sentence adverb the sentiments of the speaker. An example of a sentence adverb modifying a clause within a sentence is: I liked the red car in the forecourt, but unfortunately, when I got to the dealer it was already sold. Adjunct meaning: They worked with seriousness.Īn example of a sentence adverb modifying a sentence is: Unfortunately, when I got to the supermarket it had run out of the vegetable I like. Disjunct meaning: I'm serious when I say that they worked in an underground diamond mine. They seriously worked in an underground diamond mine run by Barbara. Sometimes, the same word or phrase can be interpreted either as a disjunct or as a simple adjunct: Unfortunately, by the time she reached the bus stop, the bus had already left.Clearly, the mail did not come today due to it being a national holiday.Luckily, the amount of sugar the recipe called for was in stock in the pantry.Interestingly, the comment made for a great topic of its own.Frankly, this whole paragraph needs work.Fortunately for you, I have it right here.(Meaning "I'm honest when I say I didn't do it" rather than "I didn't do it in an honest way.") Here are some examples (note: the disjuncts that follow are 'sentence adverbs'): Such elements usually appear peripherally (at the beginning or end of the sentence) and are set off from the rest of the sentence by a comma (in writing) and a pause (in speech). More generally, the term disjunct can be used to refer to any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence. In linguistics, a disjunct is a type of adverbial adjunct that expresses information that is not considered essential to the sentence it appears in, but which is considered to be the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the sentence, "expressing, for example, the speaker's degree of truthfulness or his manner of speaking." Ī specific type of disjunct is the sentence adverb (or sentence adverbial), which modifies a sentence, or a clause within a sentence, to convey the mood, attitude or sentiments of the speaker, rather than an adverb modifying a verb, an adjective or another adverb within a sentence. For the linguistic and logical operation of disjunction, see Disjunction.
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