Forum: English Questions 
Aug 27th, 2013, 05:13 am
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1. a) Yes. b) Yes, though while is less likely here as this seems to be spoken English, and if subordination is used at all in spoken English although is more likely to occur in initial position...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 25th, 2013, 04:17 am
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You've used while incorrectly. It's a subordinating conjunction like although and not a co-ordinating conjunction like but. So there must be a main clause attached :
We rarely eat oranges in the...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 24th, 2013, 04:41 am
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 23rd, 2013, 04:41 am
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1. Nice is a general evaluation meaning "pleasant to be with"; kind has the specific meaning of "not hurtful to others" and tends to describe behaviour rather than the person themself. It would...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 21st, 2013, 04:31 am
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1/2/3. There's a grey area in the middle of concession and contrast - which is why a lot of accounts lump them together. These are typical examples.
4. Yes. Whether the discourse is spoken or...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 19th, 2013, 08:09 am
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1. The whole dialogue is so unnatural and stilted that it really doesn't make sense to ask whether it "makes sense". The use of full forms rather than contractions, the use of "she", asking if she's...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 18th, 2013, 11:13 am
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As before - it is impossible to make this sort of judgement about a sentence unless you quote the full context. Isolated like that, I would agree - it's not a logical continuation. But put it into a...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 16th, 2013, 04:46 am
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a) As still is an adverb it can't join clauses into a single sentence - only conjunctions can do that.
b) As before, your sentences are invented, uncontextualised and rather unnatural, so it's...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 15th, 2013, 03:39 am
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a) It would be more usual nowadays to use full stops rather than semi-colons. The use of semi-colons to divide main clauses, though still seen, seems to be dying out and often has an "old-fashioned"...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 14th, 2013, 09:02 am
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1. Yes - but it makes it sound as if the speaker is surprised, as yet can only be used for concession. With but it's ambiguous - it's not clear if the speaker intends contrast or concession.
2. Not...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 14th, 2013, 09:02 am
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1. Yes - but it makes it sound as if the speaker is surprised, as yet can only be used for concession. With but it's ambiguous - it's not clear if the speaker intends contrast or concession.
2. Not...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 12th, 2013, 05:01 am
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1. No difference.
2. Yes - as I said above, on the other hand is a contrast adverbial.
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 10th, 2013, 04:57 am
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I didn't say it had to be positives and/or negatives- I said it had to be two ideas that were the same in some way. The positive and negatives of the examples were only an example. These two...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 9th, 2013, 03:29 am
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1. Juxtapose = place next to each other. Here are three genuine pieces of spoken English (from Crystal and Davy, (1975) Advanced Conversational English, Longman
a. ..it was lovely our one with the...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 7th, 2013, 02:52 am
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1+2. No - a) being tall and thin is quite usual so why would you want to use a contrast adverbial? b) because in both cases the sentences are too short. As I said above, if short clauses are used,...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 5th, 2013, 05:22 am
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Yes. a) It's very unlikely that anyone would say this - what would be the context. b) the sentences are too short to sound natural. compare them with the authentic ones that I gave as examples. When...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 3rd, 2013, 10:23 am
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1. Yes and yes
2. The problem with the examples sentences that you've used is that they're so unnatural that they sound strange anyway. But However would normally be restricted to neutral and formal...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 2nd, 2013, 02:29 am
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1. Neutral rather than formal. But in the British national corpus on the other hand occurs 47 times in written texts, predominantly in a second sentence while it occurs 17 times in spoken texts and...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 1st, 2013, 02:18 am
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Grammatically, yes. They're not all conjunctions however - still and however are adverbs. And notice that there's considerable stylistic difference between them. Yet suggests a formal style and would...
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