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HOPEFULLY IN A SENTENCE FULL

This video originally appeared in LSA Today. What do you think? Do you use hopefully “properly,” or as a sentence adverb? Does it matter? Share your thoughts in the comments section. So I would say that each of us, when the Microsoft Word grammar checker underlines our hopefully, has the right to make a decision-to decide, do I mean “I hope that,” or does hopefully better capture what I mean to say? Now, why is it okay to use mercifully and not okay to use hopefully as a sentence adverb? That’s a very fair question, and it highlights the ways in which usage guides can latch onto one form as incorrect and a very similar form as not being incorrect. In 1999, only 34 percent of the Usage Panel approved the usage (the example sentence on the survey was “Hopefully, the treaty will be ratified”). The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th edition, 2011) reports that in 1968, 44 percent of the Usage Panel approved this new use of hopefully as a sentence adverb. Interestingly (just to use a sentence adverb!), criticism seems to have gotten stronger, not weaker, over the second half of the 20th century-even as usage of the sentence adverb becomes ever more widespread. It gained in popularity over the next three decades, and in the 1960s, it caught the attention of usage guide writers, at which point prescriptive criticism of sentence adverb hopefully took hold. Hopefully started to be used as a sentence adverb in the 1930s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Hopefully is now doing the same thing, but usage guides tell us that we shouldn’t do that, that it’s ambiguous.

Or, consider the sentence adverb mercifully, which describes how I feel-or how many people feel, or how I think many people may feel (it is ambiguous)-about the proposition that I’m forwarding (e.g., “Mercifully, the budget cuts will be limited”). Take, for instance, frankly or bluntly: these adverbs express how I, as a speaker, feel about what I’m saying.

Linguists call adverbs used this way “sentence adverbs.” They’re adverbs that modify the sentence or how the speaker feels about the sentence, and we have a good number of them in English.

HOPEFULLY IN A SENTENCE FULL

When we say, “Hopefully, she opened the package,” we typically mean, “I hope she opened it”-we’re not talking about how she opened it, full of hope.

Hopefully we can find a way of solving this problem.Why doesn’t the Microsoft Word grammar checker like it when we use hopefully at the beginning of a sentence, as in, “Hopefully, there won’t be budget cuts this year.”Įtymologically, hopefully comes from ‘full of hope’, as in, “She opened the package hopefully.” But this isn’t now how most of us use the word hopefully.

It has been pushed beyond the limit by many dealers and hopefully these are the dealers that will have to close.

"But, " Tim added hopefully, "there's always tomorrow.".

Hopefully I'll be home by nine tonight.

He's been resting today, so hopefully he'll be feeling better tomorrow.

We're hopefully going to keep practicing once a month.

This method of operation will hopefully give the team overall control.

They all looked at him, Dalziel interrogatively, Antony hopefully, Connon fearfully.

It is this special knowledge, or gnosis, which hopefully can make the inside ethnography so different and illuminating.

Despite all those sweaty men who came, rummaged hopefully and yet failed to prise it over his nose.

This exercise should give you a good review for the test, hopefully.

2 HOPE in a way that shows that you are hopeful ‘Will there be any food left over?’ he asked hopefully. By then the problem will hopefully have been solved.

S1 adverb 1 HOPE a way of saying what you hope will happen, which some people think is incorrect Hopefully, I’ll be back home by ten o‘clock.

Hopefully ≠ hopelessly From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English hopefully hope‧ful‧ly / ˈhəʊpf əli $ ˈhoʊp- /