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Many English adverbs can be used to modify whole sentences, for example: Obviously there must be some mistake. Regrettably I will be away that week.Financially it was a disaster.I've never liked him, frankly. They are known as sentence adverbs. Sentence adverbs are concise; they allow you to express in a single word what you might otherwise have to say in several words. Sentence adverbs form a completely standard aspect of English grammar, but there are a few, for example, hopefully, that give rise to widespread criticism as they express the user's attitude to the sentence content rather than modify the sentence as a whole. Others that may incur criticism in the same way are mercifully, thankfully, and truthfully. In formal contexts, writers are advised to avoid all these and simply recast their sentences accordingly.
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