What Is a Sentence Adverb?
What Is a Sentence Adverb?The sentence adverb has served a useful function in English since the 14th century. In the past few decades, however, one sentence adverb in particular has come in for a lot of criticism. Here we’ll look at some examples of sentence adverbs and consider what–if anything–is wrong with the ever-optimistic adverb hopefully. Answer: The first word in each of the following sentences is called (among other names) a sentence adverb: • “Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.” (Mark Twain) • “Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.” (Carolyn Heilbrun) • “Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.” (Gore Vidal) • “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, i
