8 JANUARY 1977, page 12

Yours Hopefully

Alan Watkins The word 'hopefully,' as used in 'Hopefully, the trains will be running,' came in for a good deal of abuse last year. It was denounced, in the New Statesman and......

Luckily He Batted, While All The World Was Still; And

lads like him thought not of me That day by Bredon Hill. Conversely, absolute adverbs, enclosed by commas, can occur in the middle of the sentence: The potential bonth-thrower,......