Sentence Correction

844. The use of gravity waves, which do not interact with matter in the way electromagnetic waves do, hopefully will enable astronomers to study the actual formation of black holes and neutron stars.
(A) in the way electromagnetic waves do, hopefully will enable
(B) in the way electromagnetic waves do, will, it is hoped, enable
(C) like electromagnetic waves, hopefully will enable
(D) like electromagnetic waves, would enable, hopefully
(E) such as electromagnetic waves do, will, it is hoped, enable

[spoiler]B

OA sounds ridiculous to me...help please[/spoiler]

IMO A

(A) in the way electromagnetic waves do, hopefully will enable
(B) in the way electromagnetic waves do, will, it is hoped, enable
(C) like electromagnetic waves, hopefully will enable
(D) like electromagnetic waves, would enable, hopefully
(E) such as electromagnetic waves do, will, it is hoped, enable

"hopefully" is incorrect all the way in Gmat test. A,C,D are out.
between B and E,

E is wrong because "such as" is used for examples.
such as apples, bananas, oranges,...etc. But here in E, there is a verb "do" which is nonsensical.

therefore B is correct.

I never knew that "hopefully" was shunned by GMAT. I am curious about where the source of this rule if from.

awesomeusername wrote:I never knew that "hopefully" was shunned by GMAT. I am curious about where the source of this rule if from.

GMAT prefers "it is hoped" than "hopefully" --> ALMOST ALWAYS wrong to use hopefully.

https://www.answers.com/topic/hopefully

I would like to add someone's great explantion on this:

"
Why is hopefully wrong? Is it incorrect to say hopefully?

We have an old grammar controversy in English about the use of hopefully. Some people think that it shouldn't be used as a "sentence adverb," (i.e., an adverb at the beginning of the sentence, usually with a comma after it). These people think that it should instead be used like this: We waited for the results hopefully, meaning in a hopeful way.

Inflation in the US has not and, we hope, never will reach a rate of 20 percent a year.

a) and, we hope, never will reach
b) reached and, we hope never will
c) and hopefully never will reach
d) reached and, we hope, never will reach
e) reached and hopefully never will reach

A, B, and C are all wrong because they are not parallel--we can only omit a word if it is exactly the same in both cases.

For example:

I haven't visited Bora Bora, and neither has Kerry [visited Bora Bora].

In this case, I can omit visited Bora Bora because it already appears in the sentence.

Let's look at another example:

I haven't visited Bora Bora, and I probably never will [V] visit Bora Bora [V].

This is wrong, at least on the GMAT, since visited and visit are different.

So, this question, at least the way it's written, presents us with a problem--we need to choose either D, which is grammatically correct, but a little awkward because of the location of 'we hope' or E, which is grammatically correct, but uses the controversial 'hopefully.'

Between the two, I'd go for D as the best GMAT answer, but I don't think this type of question would appear on the GMAT; this question looks to me to be a question from a practice book.

Can you tell me where it's from?

Hope this helps you, Calin!!

Erin
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Thanks for the info x2. So it appears to be a rule that you will not be tested on when taking the actual GMAT?

If I remember correctly, I once saw "hopefully" in a question when I was doing a practice test from GMAC, and I thought, "Wow, so the rumors are true -- they really do care about that old rule!" Still, I think the odds of being tested on it are low. It's worth making a mental note of it just in case you get one.

As others explained above, there's a controversy over whether it's all right for "hopefully" to take on the function of a sentential adverb (describing the speaker's attitude toward the sentence, as in "Hopefully it's stopped raining by now") or whether it should be limited to describing the attitude of some actor described inside the sentence (that is, meaning "someone did something in a hopeful manner"). The fact is that there's a tendency in every language for certain modifiers to evolve into sentential adverbs, so there's nothing intrinsically evil about "hopefully" going through that process. It's just that the process of evolution is still ongoing, so traditionalists (such as those who write questions for the GMAT) consider the sentential adverb usage to be wrong.