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"Funnily enough, I do believe in democracy". [my sentence]
"Funnily enough, he did say he believed in democracy". [my sentence]
funnily enough is an idiomatic expression that means that what you say after it is unexpected. It can be placed at the beginning or at the end of a sentence, and not usually in the middle. It is more spoken than written. It is ...
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No. The adjective is correct.
"the amount of time that young people spend inactive."
means "the amount of time that young people spend as a result of being inactive."
This use of adjectives has two categories:
Resultative: https://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/resultative-adjective.html
I shot him dead = I shot him [and, as a result, he was] dead.
He ...
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No, "inactively" doesn't work here. This is what the relative clause says:
Young people spend X amount of time inactive.
Which could be read along these lines:
Young people are inactive for X hours a day on average.
The adjective "inactive" says something about the subject "young people".
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Ago works well here. It retains some of the nuance of time and can only really be replaced by "earlier" - which would refer to earlier in my journey which is neutral as to whether it means "at an earlier point", or "at an earlier time."
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