Timeline for Would a comma go before an introductory phrase when a word such as "yesterday" goes before it?
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| Nov 8, 2016 at 21:54 | comment | added | deadrat | @Tim Hopefully is just verbal static. It certainly doesn't mean that you want to obtain your grades in a hopeful manner. It's sort of a substitute for "... and I hope to get good grades." So I'm reluctant to treat it as an adverb like effortlessly (which wouldn't take a comma) or as an aside like as I'm expecting (which would). In my view, punctuation should aid your readers in parsing your sentences (and in particular help them avoid erroneous parsing). A comma or its absence after hopefully neither helps nor hurts, so it's up to you as a matter of style. | |
| Nov 8, 2016 at 21:13 | comment | added | Tim | Would you say the same to setting off "hopefully" with commas in a sentence like this: "I want to go to college and hopefully get good grades"? | |
| Nov 8, 2016 at 21:08 | history | answered | deadrat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |