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I said a sentence during a chat with my friends and they were like, "Yeh dude that is stupid you're just trying to sound smart."

Can somebody tell me if there is any grammar/word usage error in this sentence?

"AoE3 looks really good, albeit it will be different from AoE2." I know i should of abbrevaited like that but thats not what they're talking about. My friends were saying I used albeit incorrectly or at least wrong word usage as in it sounded "retarded."

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

It seems like an obsolete word...Maybe that's the reason?

Anonymous · Answer

Your use of albeit is standard.

Webster's Third New International Dictionary:
albeit: conjunction: even though: ALTHOUGH [destined to pass his fortieth year before fame saluted him -- albeit his was a special genius].

(I would question the grammatical perspicacity of anyone who starts a sentence with "Yeh dude.")

Paco2004 · Answer

Hello

Your sentence is grammatically correct. But 'albeit' sounds a bit stiff. I think 'although' is enough.
"AoE3 looks really good, although it will be different from AoE2."

paco

Mister Micawber · Answer

AoE3 looks really good, albeit it will be different from AoE2.

What bothers me about this sentence is the redundancy. The source of albeit is although it be:

(X) AoE3 looks really good, although it be it will be different from AoE2.

I would change the sentence to:

AoE3 looks really good, albeit different from AoE2.

Paco2004 · Answer

OED explains 'albeit' like this.

albeit, conj.

[prop. a phrase 'all be it (that)'; in full, 'all though it be that'. This is only a particular instance of 'all' with a verb in subjunctive (see all adv. 10), in which the conjunctive phrase becomes a quasi-word. The nom. ****. it was also often dropped, whence the shorter 'all be', 'albe'. Before the synthesis was complete, 'all be it had', in past tense, 'all were it'.]

1. Even though it be (that); admitting (that).
[c1460 Fortescue] Albeit that the frenche kyng's revenuz be..miche gretter. [1603 Knolles] Albeit that a great number of them were slain, yet fell they out againe. [1862 C. Stretton] From that day to this we have never met—albeit that he has had my best wishes.

2. That omitted: Even though it be that; even though, although, though.
[c1385 Chaucer] I may well leese a worde on yow, or letter, albeit I shal be never the better. [c1420 Chron. Vilod]. He had gret fere, albut thaw hit ner no nede. [1532 Tindale Wks]. All bee it he coulde not saye naye. [1611 Shakes] A worthy Fellow, Albeit he comes on angry purpose now. [1805 Southey] I shall live to see the day, albeit the number of my years well nigh be full. [1878 Lever] Their voices, too, albeit the accent was provincial, were soft and musical.

3. In contr. clause: Even though, even if, although.
[1795 Southey] And I am well content to dwell in peace, albeit inglorious. [1847 Thackeray] When a certain (albeit uncertain) morrow is in view. [1853 Kane] The sun, albeit from a lowly altitude, shone out in full brightness.
paco

Farcus · Answer

thanks for the replies.

I asked my pacesetters teacher, who is also a freelance writer and author of three different books, and she said she would of used something else. The thing is though that she didn't say IT WAS WRONG. Thanks guys

Clive · Answer

Hi Farcus,

I just want to say that I think your sentence was very good, although not perfect. Well done!

I think you showed some pretty good grammatical perspicacity!

Clive

Nona the brit · Answer

Hi Farcus

"...she would have used something else."

Anonymous · Answer

I'm replying to this over a year after it was posted. The error is that you said "it will be" after "albeit." "Albeit" stems from the words "although it be." So basically you were saying, "...although it be it will be different..." You should have simply said, "albeit different."

BarbaraPA · Answer

Hi Anonymous, and thanks for your interest in the forums. However, replying to a post a year later (as you have noted that you have done) is not the best way to share your expertise - the person who asked it has had the questions long ago answered. Even if you don't agree with the answer, to the original poster's mind, the question was asked and answered, and he or she is no longer likely to be looking for this thread.

Also, despite the literal translation, "albeit" has simply come to mean "although."

But I hope you will find other threads in the forum to contribute too.

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