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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Even as

"He also dismissed the idea of negotiating with Pyongyang even as it continued to develop its nuclear weapons program." (Reuters.)

Is "even as" a subordinator introducing a conditional clause in the sentence above?

  

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To me, "even as" does not seem to fit that sentence.

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  • To me, "even as" does not seem to fit that sentence.
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To me, "even as" does not seem to fit that sentence.

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"Even as" is a subordinator, but it isn't introducing a conditional clause.

I think of "even as" sort of like an emphasized "while." You could think about it very literally: "as" in the sense of "while," and "even" in the sense of "this is unusual or remarkable in some way."

This sentence is saying that it's remarkable that someone dismissed the idea of negotiating, even thoug

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