10.57 indicating your opinion

One group of sentence adjuncts is used to indicate your reaction to, or your opinion of, the fact or event you are talking about.

• Surprisingly, most of my help came from the technicians.
• Luckily, I had seen the play before so I knew what it was about.
• It is fortunately not a bad bump, and Henry is only slightly hurt.
• Interestingly, the solution adopted in these two countries was the same.

The following adjuncts are commonly used in this way:

• absurdly, admittedly, alas, anyway, astonishingly, at least, characteristically, coincidentally, conveniently, curiously, fortunately, happily, incredibly, interestingly, ironically, luckily, mercifully, miraculously, mysteriously, naturally, oddly, of course, paradoxically, please, predictably, remarkably, sadly, significantly, strangely, surprisingly, true, typically, unbelievably, understandably, unexpectedly, unfortunately, unhappily, unnecessarily

One of the uses of 'at least' and 'anyway' is to indicate that you are pleased about the fact you are giving, although there may be other less desirable facts.

• At least we're agreed on something.
• He fell back with a look of surprise --- dead. It's quick, anyway, I thought.