IMPROVE VOCABULARY FAST
IN VOCABULARY, today we are going to discuss about
“though, although, but, yet, despite, despite of, inspite of”, whereas………
LINKING WORDS AS THEY ARE USUALLY CALLED AS OR TERMED AS.These linking words are words that join two contrast facts.
Contrast words mean completely contradicting words,
A gentle reminder,Clause is a group of words……..of course today we are talking about words……
Just note the difference and learn here,
Keep it in mind,Linking words are used to tell contrasting things, facts……
But,yet, and yet
BUT
*The price of this car is reasonable, but there is no buyer so far.
*The price of the car A is reasonable but the car B is expensive.
*The price of the car is reasonable, yet there is no buyer so far.
*The price of the car is reasonable and yet there is no buyer so far.
One more example discussed over here,………..
*He studied well, but failed in the exam.
*He did not study well but he passed in the exam.
*He did not study at all and yet he passed in the exam.
Now slowly getting into
Though, although, even though
Let’s reconsider the same example we took before……
*The price of this car is reasonable, but there is no buyer so far.
*There is no buyer for this car though it’s price is reasonable.
*There is no buyer for this car although it’s price is reasonable.
*There is no buyer for this car even though it’s price is reasonable.
Surprisingly all these three sentences almost convey the same meaning but there is of course a small tint of difference between them.
Usually though could be used in colloquial English-say informal English, say conversational(spoken English) English……. something casual….. well though could be used in written English also.
Although, eventhough could be probably used for written English mainly.
These were simple sentences where we used though, although, even though in the middle of the sentence, now we shall use them in the beginning of the sentence….
*Though the price of this car is reasonable, there is no buyer so far.