Using rather in this sentence, is it correct?
"He was not happy, rather depressed."
How to use "rather" in this type of sentences where it is intensifying the degree of the previous clause.
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Hello Park Slide 502, I'm not sure if it intensifies the degree of the previous clause... However, if you're referring to being more specific , then I guess you could say it intensifies the degree . As I see it, rather is used to express the opposite or to add specifics .
- Hello Park Slide 502, I'm not sure if it intensifies the degree of the previous clause...
- However, if you're referring to being more specific , then I guess you could say it intensifies the degree .
- As I see it, rather is used to express the opposite or to add specifics .
- But or or often precede rather: He was not happy, (but) rather depressed.
- (=opposition) He is going out for dinner with her tonight, or rather, he's going to propose to her.
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Hello Park Slide 502,
I'm not sure if it intensifies the degree of the previous clause... However, if you're referring to being more specific, then I guess you could say it intensifies the degree.
As I see it, rather is used to express the opposite or to add specifics.
But or
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