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Ask for help > Please, help me. I have a doubt.
Please, help me. I have a doubt.
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atsitab
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Please, help me. I have a doubt.
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Hi, dear colleagues.
I have a doubt and I�d like you to help me, please.
Yesterday I was solving a rephrasing exercise about concessive clauses. The sentence was: "They have a car, but they rarely use it." When I rephrased it, I wrote: Though they have a car, they rarely use it. My coleague said it wasn�t correct. She thinks it�s this way: Though they rarely use it, they have a car.
Which is correct? Can you help me?
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29 Jan 2009
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Amanda W
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I think you can say both too although I feel your version to be the more common. I would, in both sentences, use "although" instead of though. The second sentence places more emphasis on the fact that "they rarely use it".
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29 Jan 2009
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Rosario Pacheco
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Dear colleague.
According to me the correct answer is without any doubt:Though they have a car, they rarely use it. In fact it is the one you used.
Regards Ros�rio. |
29 Jan 2009
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labellevie
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You can use both, the way your colleague rephrased it is a little awkward sounding. I would go with Amanda and use �although�, especially in writing, although in speaking both are absolutely fine...
JQ
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29 Jan 2009
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libertybelle
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I would say:
they have a car they rarely use. (no it here)
this is how any American would phrase it.
all the other sentences sound awkward.
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29 Jan 2009
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atsitab
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Thank you all for helping!
This is what this forum is for: to share materials and help eachother with any doubt we might have.
Thank you all for your quick replies!
Have a good evening!
Ana |
29 Jan 2009
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Nucha75
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Dear atsitab,
I believe that your coleague �s answer is not grammatically correct, since the mais phrase is the fact that they own a car. So without hesitating, i would suggest yours.
Helena |
29 Jan 2009
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goodnesses
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Hi all
I think "but" in this sentence can be replaced by "however" or "yet" but not with "although", "despite" or "inspite of".
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30 Jan 2009
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bigbang
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Yours is the correct one . Besides being correct, it�s a matter of logic and emphasis. What you want to emphasize is the the fact of their having a car and rarely using it which is, in the writer�s opinion, strange.
My students tend to have the same problem and I take pains to help them see the difference.
Bigbang |
30 Jan 2009
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