Can You Start a Sentence with 'Hopefully' or 'More Importantly'?

People who think adverbs only modify actions argue that "hopefully" and "importantly" can't begin a sentence. But in fact, adverbs can also modify whole sentences, which is why these two sentence adverbs work just fine.

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