来年は是非明るい年でありますように願うばかりです I hope that the next year will be great for you
Is this sentence grammatically incorrect? In what way(s)? If incorrect, why can でありますように not be followed by an explicit verb? Can it be followed by another type of verb?
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である
can takeように
+ an explicit verb. The polite formであります
cannot. You need to mention that distinction.