The phrase "proved fundamental" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means that something has been proven to be essential or crucial to a particular situation or outcome. Example: The results of the experiment proved fundamental to the development of the new drug.
This natural bounty later proved fundamental to early settlement, both for Native Americans and European colonists.
In each of these cases, a triangle of factors proved fundamental: popular support, clerical opposition and the involvement of the bazaars.
"It is a great pity that it should be marred by those personal details of an obscure Illinois lawyer which we notice have crept into the story from time to time," one reader grumbled sarcastically.But the book proved fundamental to the shaping of Lincoln's story.
In January 1883 he arrived at an insight that proved fundamental to his philosophy: in order for our ordinary concepts of truth and error to be meaningful, there must be an Absolute Knower, an actual infinite mind that encompasses the totality of all actual truths and possible errors.
Three episodes proved fundamental to the administrative and political unification of Germany.
This work proved fundamental in the elucidation of the leptinergic melanocortinergic system.
Hofstadter has distilled his thoughts on Cope's work into a full-length lecture performed in rhyme that begins with a question that might prove fundamental to future understanding of composition: Is music a craft Or is it an art?
Oculus has the best physical input device, and newcomer Fove a gimmick that may prove fundamental: the ability to interact with objects and in-game characters using nothing but your eyes.
He was traded away to Genoa in 2009 as part of the deal that saw Diego Milito and Thiago Motta move in the opposite direction – two players who would prove fundamental to Inter's subsequent treble win.
Hardy invited Ramanujan to come to Cambridge so they could work together, and their seven-year collaboration would lead to discoveries on the part of Ramanujan that would prove fundamental to the development of string theory decades later.
It would be right to say that it worked, to the extent that Mourinho compared the young Frenchman to Marcel Desailly, and that it worked so well seems to prove fundamental to the Chelsea manager.
