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Anon f8r Posted 18 years ago
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As with all choices there will always be a downside, most importantly in this case is the cost factor.

This is a sentence from a sample essay written by an English teacher.

What does 'most importantly' modify?

Or should it be 'the most important one 'instead of 'most importantly'?
  

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Hongkie What does 'most importantly' modify? cost factor. Or should it be 'the most important one 'instead of 'most importantly'?

  • Hongkie What does 'most importantly' modify?
  • cost factor.
  • Or should it be 'the most important one 'instead of 'most importantly'?
  • No!
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HongkieWhat does 'most importantly' modify? cost factor.
Or should it be 'the most important one 'instead of 'most importantly'?
No!
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Hi,

As with all choices there will always be a downside, most importantly in this case is the cost factor.

This is a sentence from a sample essay written by an English teacher.

What does 'most importantly' modify?

Or should it be 'the most important one 'instead of 'most importantly'?

I wouldn't write it as in the original, but in one of these
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Thanks a lot, Clive.

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