Archive for October, 2009

Not Surprising, This Sounds Awkward

Monday, October 12th, 2009

The other day at work I came across a strange construction: an author had used “not surprising” as a sentence adverb, as in “Not surprising, the data show that. . . .” I assumed it was simply an error, so I changed it to “not surprisingly” and went on. But then I saw the same [...]

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