<p>I was really an old version SAT book, one rule says that you can't use Hopefully at the start of the sentence. For example, "Hopefully, I will score high on my SAT test." "Hopefully" is wrong because it cannot take the place of "I hope". Is the rule still like this or CollegeBoard changed it?</p>
<p>i've never heard of this rule. so according to you, you can only use hopefully as an adverb?</p>
<p>Hopefully this rule will be clarified.</p>
<p>The CollegeBoard should change it. You should not use the word "hopefully" when it means "I hope." Why? Because the word "hopefully" is ambiguous: do you hope something will happen, or are you doing something in a hopeful manner? Let's see what Strunk and White say:</p>
<p>"This once-helpful adverb meaning 'with hope' has been distorted and is now widely used to mean 'I hope' or 'it is to be hoped.' Such use is not merely wrong, it is silly. To say, 'Hopefully I'll leave on the noon plane' is to talk nonsense. Do you mean you'll leave on the noon plan in a hopeful frame of mind? Or do you mean you hope you'll leave on the noon plane? Whichever you mean, you haven't said it clearly. Athough the word in its new, free-floating capacity may be pleasurable and even useful to many, it offends the ear of many others, who do not like to see words dulled or eroded, particularly when the erosion leads to ambiguity, softness, or nonsense."</p>
<p>yeah this rule is really annoying. I saw it in some college essay writing book...and I still don't get it because I use "hopefully" as "I hope" as a part of colloquial speech.</p>
<p>dchow08 is right on this one, unfortunately.</p>
<p>except..um strunk and white seem to be a bit pretentious, especially for someone who has a comma splice in "Such use is not merely wrong, it is silly." lol</p>
<p>hopefully this doesn't come up on the SAT, but if it does, would it be wrong?</p>
<p>Yes, it would be wrong. "I hope" and "hopefully" are not the same thing. Colloquially, perhaps it is used, but a lot of things used colloquially are wrong.</p>
<p>The question coming up on the SAT is not "hopeful" or "woeful" or anything else. The correct phrase is "I hope this doesn't come up on the SAT." Any other construct is nonsensical.</p>
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<p>That ain't a comma slice, bud. "But also" is implied.</p>
<p>"Hopefully" should not, and is not supposed to, take the place of "I hope", but I don't think they would put it on the SAT when it's up in the air grammatically. "Hopefully" is supposed to be used like, "The girl smiled hopefully [with hope]."</p>
<p>Do you really think they'd give us a question on something so recently distorted?</p>