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Futurehuman11  #455398  Thu, 20 Dec 07 10:12 PM

Should I place commas around 'unfortunately' in the follwoing sentence?  "The band will unfortunately not be playing tonight." 

Are the commas optional?
  
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Feebs11  #455410  Fri, 21 Dec 07 12:39 AM
You do not need commas.

You do need a comma in this way of saying the same thing: Unfortunately, the band will not be playing tonight
  
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