關於more important用法的學術問題

Ming Cheng

我在網上隨便碼了句英語評論如下：

more important,  you don't have any 。。。。

其中 more important,的用法引起一些網友的異議。老直認為應該用 more importantly. 用 more important是錯的。 我當時只是憑感覺寫，印象中美國人就常這樣用.  網上聊天，誰還去查語法啊。但對別人不同的專業意見還是很注意的， 特別是英語專業的學生。 想來不應該亂說。 但今天有空查了一下網絡，WSU 大學的英語教學網頁如是說：

When speakers are trying to impress audiences with their rhetoric, they often seem to feel that the extra syllable in ¨importantly〃 lends weight to their remarks: ¨and more importantly, I have an abiding love for the American people.〃 However, these pompous speakers are wrong. It is rarely correct to use this form of the phrase because it is seldom adverbial in intention. Say ¨more important〃 instead. The same applies to ¨most importantly〃; it should be ¨most important.〃

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/importantly.html

裡面的例句跟我用的句型很相似。所以我用 more important 按照它的說法是對的。再查其它英語網站，也是類似說法。個別的說兩種都可以用。多數建議在這樣的情況下用 more important。至少還沒有看到不可以用 more important 的說法。 網上還有許多知名學者如此用的例子，很容易找到，就不一一舉例了。