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Stenka25 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
A conjunction problem
a conjunction problem
The passage below comes from Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks.
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=rDT9MO0r0UYC&pg=PT227&dq=%22that+there+were+more+men+than+women+and+vice%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
We spend our lives spotting patterns and picking out exceptional and interesting things. You don't waste cognitive effort, every time you walk into your house, noticing and analyzing all the many features in the visually dense environment of your kitchen. You do notice the broken window and the missing television. When information is made more "available," as psychologists call it, it becomes disproportionately prominent.
In this passage there is no 'conjunction' in front of the underlined 'You do notice'. And that's OK.
But if someone asks to put a conjunction in front of it, what do you think needs to be put?
Let me tell you my answer.
If I were asked, I would put 'Thus' before 'You do notice'.
(Am I right?)
I have one more question.
Is there any possibility that there can be 'But' in front of 'You do notice'?
I think it's not possible, but I want to double-check about it.
(Do you agree with me?)
Regards.
The passage below comes from Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks.
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=rDT9MO0r0UYC&pg=PT227&dq=%22that+there+were+more+men+than+women+and+vice%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
We spend our lives spotting patterns and picking out exceptional and interesting things. You don't waste cognitive effort, every time you walk into your house, noticing and analyzing all the many features in the visually dense environment of your kitchen. You do notice the broken window and the missing television. When information is made more "available," as psychologists call it, it becomes disproportionately prominent.
In this passage there is no 'conjunction' in front of the underlined 'You do notice'. And that's OK.
But if someone asks to put a conjunction in front of it, what do you think needs to be put?
Let me tell you my answer.
If I were asked, I would put 'Thus' before 'You do notice'.
(Am I right?)
I have one more question.
Is there any possibility that there can be 'But' in front of 'You do notice'?
I think it's not possible, but I want to double-check about it.
(Do you agree with me?)
Regards.
Top answer
I think you should use 'but' as a conjunction, but obviously you would need to join the two sentences into one, using a comma before 'but'. 'Thus' isnt correct.
- I think you should use 'but' as a conjunction, but obviously you would need to join the two sentences into one, using a comma before 'but'.
- 'Thus' isnt correct.
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I think you should use 'but' as a conjunction, but obviously you would need to join the two sentences into one, using a comma before 'but'. 'Thus' isnt correct.
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"Thus" doesn't work very well. Logically it would have to link back to the first sentence, but the intervening sentence makes that a stretch. The most obvious word to go there would be "However". "But" would also be OK. Starting a new sentence with "But", rather than continuing the previous sentence, creates a certain stylistic feel.
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Stenka25Is there any possibility that there can be 'But' in front of 'You do notice'?Yes. That's my first choice. You don't waste ..., but you do notice ....
CJ
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'Thus' is not a conjunction.
Say
eg His parachute didn't work. Thus he died.
eg His parachute didn't work and thus he died.
Clive
Say
eg His parachute didn't work. Thus he died.
eg His parachute didn't work and thus he died.
Clive
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Thanks a lot, LouiseBostockEnglishExpert.
Thanks a lot as always, GPY.
Thanks a lot as always, CJ.
Thanks a lot as always, Clive.
Thank you all for everything.
Thanks a lot as always, GPY.
Thanks a lot as always, CJ.
Thanks a lot as always, Clive.
Thank you all for everything.
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