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> “Hopefully, the professor will be able to seriously take the work on which I am presently engaged, which is, I believe, rather unique.” The meaning of the sentence is clear enough, though it contains four mistakes.

I don't mean to brag, but I got 0 of 4 on both the first, initial reading and the second reading. :)



Only 2 of those are valid. The battle against "hopefully" as a sentence adverb was lost decades ago, and there was never a strong argument against split infinitives.




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