My English teacher has taught me to use “Concluding” when writing the end part of certain texts (next to other words).
Example:Concluding, we can say that…
To me it somehow sounds curious. “Concludingly” sounds way better. And we say “Unfortunately” and not “Unfortunate”, right (although this similarity might be related to the “-ing” suffix of “Concluding”)?
Could someone shed some light on this controversy?
Answer
Concludingly has some slight use. To give you some idea of how slight, the google finds 300M hits for “in conclusion” and 13K hits for “concludingly.” Here are the results for your locution:
“Concludingly, we can say” 118
“Concluding, we can say” 18.5K
“In conclusion, we can say” 139K
The Ngram viewer shows the same skew for books.
The use of concluding here is that of the nominative absolute, a participial phrase (here of just one word, the participle) that applies to the subject+verb combination of the main clause.
(We say unfortunately because we need the adverbial form. Unfortunate is an adjective.)
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