March 28th, 2010 Commentary Adjectives and Adverbs is a category
of presupposition where in your commentary is in the foreground
and what is being presupposed tends to be accepted. Like in the
sentence, “Luckily, the coach really understands the zone
defense,” it is more likely you’d question how lucky it is that
the coach understands the zone defense, rather than whether or
not he does actually understand. Here are some commentary
adverbs: fortunately, happily, necessarily, remarkably.
Fortunately, even learning one pattern makes you a better
communicator. Happily, Doug O’Brien’s blog is the place to learn
this stuff. Remarkably, some people reading this sentence won’t
have read the previous one. Here are some commentary adjectives:
lucky, fortunate, great, super, painful. It’s great that when
you learn and practice new things, you grow as a human being.
How fortunate we are are to be able to read Doug O’Brien’s blog.
EDITOR’S NOTE: A couple of months ago some one showed me that
these language patterns posts