: Re: Replacing actually with a more formal alternative I have a sentence that reads as follows, "This study shows that performance of method X and method Y are almost identical in ranking task and

@Connie138

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The intention of the reviewer seems to be to avoid words that may reflect personal opinion.
I would suggest that you break it into two sentences.

"This study shows that performance of method X and method Y are almost identical in ranking task."<
"Furthermore, method X outperforms method Y in user recommendation task by about 30%."<

Here, you are not including your interpretation/ opinion in an implied way, as is the case with saying actually. Note that the implication actually is not part of the findings of the study as such.

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