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help with connective words
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i'm ashamed to say I was a bit stumped helping my daughter with her English homework last night.
Sh had to use the given connective words to make sentences more interesting. 'it is raining very hard. __________I will take the dog for a walk.'
she could use either:
but
nevertheless
nonetheless
I didn't really know the difference between the last two in this context!
Sh had to use the given connective words to make sentences more interesting. 'it is raining very hard. __________I will take the dog for a walk.'
she could use either:
but
nevertheless
nonetheless
I didn't really know the difference between the last two in this context!
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'But' is usually informal, whereas the others are quite formal. However, it is poor style to begin a sentence with 'But'.
On a matter of style, there should be a comma after nevertheless and nonetheless. These are quite formal, but all three mean pretty much the same thing.
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'But' is usually informal, whereas the others are quite formal. However, it is poor style to begin a sentence with 'But'.
On a matter of style, there should be a comma after nevertheless and nonetheless. These are quite formal, but all three mean pretty much the same thing.
I don't know how old your daughter is, but very helpful sites are
http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/
http://www.woodlands-...t.sch.uk/interactive/
The Woodlands Junior site is great fun to explore - it has so many interesting links that you could find yourself getting hooked.
I hope this is useful.
You don't say whether the idea is to make just ONE sentence of the two you started with. If it is, the only acceptable word of the three is but after replacing the full stop with a comma in my view. So...
It is raining very hard, but I will take the dog for a walk.
If, on the other hand, the full stop has to remain after hard, the word 'but' does not really work and either of the other two is more acceptable. So...
It is raining very hard. Nevertheless/nonetheless I will take the dog for a walk.
It is raining very hard, but I will take the dog for a walk.
If, on the other hand, the full stop has to remain after hard, the word 'but' does not really work and either of the other two is more acceptable. So...
It is raining very hard. Nevertheless/nonetheless I will take the dog for a walk.
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