hopefully

[Victor Steinbok]

I am assuming this is not mean to be a question FROM a prescriptive
grammarian, but TO a prescriptive grammarian.

Hopefully, his head would explode before an answer is fully formed...

     VS-)

On 4/4/2012 6:59 PM, Dan Nussbaum wrote:
> In the sentence, "Hopefully, the sun will rise tomorrow" the word hopefully is being used incorrectly. What word should be used?
>
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> Dan Nussbaum

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