Recently , statistical bioinformaticianNeil Saundersdecided to look for sentence adverbs in close to 100,000 scientific abstracts . ( You fuck sentence adverb : “ Remarkably , the guinea hog were tire out armorthey had fashioned themselves . Unfortunately , it seems mankind ’s days are count . ” ) This is what he found .
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Writes Saunders :
It seems that the most popular usage of the sentence adverb is to draw a close to the transactions , with finally . The next most common usage : to bespeak further points of interest ( additionally ) , label results as interesting ( interestingly ) or significant ( importantly ) and show that the author are up to date with their interpretation ( recently ) .
“ Findings are frequently surprising , ” he write , “ but more often unfortunate than noteworthy . ”
For details on Saunders ’ procedure , including a peak at his code , visit his web log , where he ’s also name the top 20 opening adverb . ( The opening adverb for this mail service , for good example , was “ recently . ” Or , perhaps , “ together with . ” )
[ What You ’re Doing is Rather Desperatevia C. Wilcox ]
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