10.62 indicating your justification for a statement

If you are basing your statement on something that you have seen, heard, or read, you can use a sentence adverb to indicate this. For example, if you can see that an object has been made by hand, you might say 'It is obviously made by hand.'

• His friend was obviously impressed.
• Higgins evidently knew nothing about their efforts.
• Apparently they had a row.

These are some common adverbs used in this way:

apparently, clearly, evidently, manifestly, obviously, plainly, unmistakably, visibly