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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Contrasting ideas

What do contrasting ideas mean in the context of conjunctions? Are "but" and "yet" completely interchangeable? How do we know whether to use "but" or "yet"?
  

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This is almost a double post of another one you submitted today. Jigneshbharati How do we know whether to use "but" or "yet"? If you are a painter, how do you know whether to use a light blue or a dark blue for the sky in your painting?

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  • This is almost a double post of another one you submitted today.
  • Jigneshbharati How do we know whether to use "but" or "yet"?
  • If you are a painter, how do you know whether to use a light blue or a dark blue for the sky in your painting?
  • It depends on your taste in colors and on what kind of sky you want to portray.
  • And your taste has developed for many, many years as you have seen and studied many other paintings not your own.
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This is almost a double post of another one you submitted today.

JigneshbharatiHow do we know whether to use "but" or "yet"?

If you are a painter, how do you know whether to use a light blue or a dark blue for the sky in your painting? It depends on your taste in colors and on what kind of sky you want to portray. And your taste has developed for ma

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