About 'AS' as a conjunction

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1. As he is careful, he makes few mistakes. -- OK

2. As he is careful, he makes a few mistakes.-- Incorrect; it is semantically illogical.

1 can be expressed as,
1-1. Since/Because he is careful, he makes few mistakes. -- Yes

2 can be expressed as,
2-1. Though/Although he is careful, he makes a few mistakes.-- No. 'As' does not mea

hey,
the second sentence is correct. However, the first one doesn't sound good. The difference between a few and few is that a few is seen like something positive and few as something negative. So, if he is careful he makes only a few mistakes.

The idea of As is never similiar to the one of Although, though, these ones express contrast, and in the firts example although would fit it

1 I would say is correct - meaning because he is careful he only makes a few mistakes.

2. Does not make sense. You could say "Even though he is careful, he still makes a few mistakes."

These both say similar things, from two different angles, though not exactly the same.
1 is more positive, meaning he is doing well.
2 is more negative, meaning it is not good he still ma

rafaelinriohey,
The difference between a few and few is that a few is seen like something positive and few as something negative. So, if he is careful he makes only a few mistakes.

So, "a few mistakes" is better than "few mistakes" ?

I think you're thinking of "a few hundred dollar bills is better than few hundred dollar bills

Hi MrPernickety

Don't think of it as positive or negative. After all, many mistakes is bad, but many hundred dollar bills is good!

"Few" emphasizes the smallness of the number. "A few" is simply saying there is more than one, but not many.

I see few mistakes - good job!
I see a few mistakes, so it's not yet perfect.

Despite the icy roads, there were few acc

Grammar GeekHi MrPernickety

Don't think of it as positive or negative. After all, many mistakes is bad, but many hundred dollar bills is good!

Hi, Barbara

As a matter of fact, it was Mr. Rafaelinrio's idea to think of them like that

I'm sorry, I didn't read your post carefully enough.

MrPernicketyMore over, he stated that "Although he was careful, he made few mistakes" is correct, and I think that he was in the wrong about its correctness, and the sentence should read "Although he was careful, he made a few mistakes".

Yes, absolutely!