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Out of the 35% in favour, 33% and 11% respectively were from solicitors in medium-sized and larger practices.

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Can “respectively” be positioned as above? I was taught to say like this.

“33% and 11% were from solicitors in medium-sized and larger practices respectively.

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The use of the adverb "respectively" requires two parallel lists of corresponding items. Therefore, both sentences are ok.

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  • I was taught to use it after the second list.
    – Gate Pending
    Commented Sep 3, 2021 at 3:43

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