Is it "have been most certainly" or "are most certainly"?

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Your determination, loyalty and endeavors in managing the day-to-day activities at the Secretariat have been of great assistance for all of us and *have been most certainly* to our satisfaction. We have had the pleasure of working with you.

Answer 1

The sentence is grammatically correct if you place commas round the interjection in the sentence. (An interjection is a word or words added to a sentence to convey emotion). It is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence.

This done it will flow much more easily.

Your determination, loyalty and endeavors in managing the day-to-day activities at the Secretariat have been of great assistance for all of us and have been, MOST CERTAINLY, to our satisfaction. We have had the pleasure of working with you.

Answer 2

You can use either, but the correct way of the first (and the better way of both) would actually be "most certainly have been".

Answer 3

depends on tense... he should have been most certainly sure that he was doing something wrong (sing. or plural) vs. We are most certainly coming to your party (pl. only) other I am most certainly...

Answer 4

For better syntax I would take out the word "most." And above I would have said "have been of great asistance to all of us." Good luck with your speech.

Answer 5

The sentance is in past tense, have been is past tense but are is present tense. I would have said "have most certainly been" however.

Answer 6

How funny! It's "are most certainly".

Answer 7

and most certainly, don't add "are' as you are continuing the sentence and have already used 'have been' .

Answer 8

...and have most certainly been... (filology major)