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Maverick88 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

To be

"if I could change just one important thing about my hometown, it would certainly to be quality of residential environment".
Why "it would certainly be X" isn't a correct form?
Is "it would be certainly X" correct?

Thanks
  

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'. The most common position for '-ly' adverbs is after the operator (in this case 'would'), or before the main verb of a simple tense, and before or after the copula: I can certainly understand. The Republicans are certainly coming into the ascendancy.

— Mister Micawber

  • '.
  • The most common position for '-ly' adverbs is after the operator (in this case 'would'), or before the main verb of a simple tense, and before or after the copula: I can certainly understand.
  • The Republicans are certainly coming into the ascendancy.
  • I am certainly hungry.
  • I certainly am hungry.
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I presume you have made a typing mistake, and it should read: 'it would certainly be quality...'.

The most common position for '-ly' adverbs is after the operator (in this case 'would'), or before the main verb of a simple tense, and before or after the copula:

I can certainly understand.
The Republicans are certainly coming into the ascendancy.
I am cer
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Hello MrM,
it wasn't a typo. I just copied this sentence from one of the articles in this forum (written by a moderator).
here it is:
http://www.EnglishForward.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=50427

The first sentence of last par. of the last reply:
"In summary, if I could
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Obviously a typo, and then a "read right over typo", M88. Happens to all of us. Check any newspaper or magazine or even these posting.
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Oh if it's a typo - OK. Obviously I don't blame anyone of us here because I make the majority of the mistakes in the forumEmotion: smile
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