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Subject:Re: Important vs. Importantly: Which is correct? From:Alison Tartt <akt -at- att -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:15:43 -0600
I've read somewhere that "more important" is the correct choice in this
context because it's actually not an adverb but rather an elliptical form
of "[what is] more important [is] . . . "
Alison Tartt
At 01:00 PM 12/30/99, sfederkilroy -at- micros -dot- com wrote:
>Which word is more grammatically correct in the following:
>
>"Installers need to know this same information, but more <important>
><importantly>, they need to know how to..."
