While the short-term
While the short-term plan is to treat acute issues like UTI, bedsores, rehabilitation, speech therapy and psychological support, the mid-term phase will be a continuation of stage one, especially rehabilitation.
What is the grammatical form and function of "while" here and which meaning of it used here?
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"While" typically has a durational meaning ( While waiting for the bus, I read the newspaper ), but in your example the meaning is one of contrast where it is equivalent to"whereas". For this reason, your while phrase is called an 'adjunct of concession'. I take "while" to be a preposition and hence head of the PP While the short-term plan is to treat acute issues like UTI, bedsores, rehabilitation, speech therapy and psychological support.
- "While" typically has a durational meaning ( While waiting for the bus, I read the newspaper ), but in your example the meaning is one of contrast where it is equivalent to"whereas".
- For this reason, your while phrase is called an 'adjunct of concession'.
- I take "while" to be a preposition and hence head of the PP While the short-term plan is to treat acute issues like UTI, bedsores, rehabilitation, speech therapy and psychological support.
- For those who take it as a conjunction, it is a subordinating one whose function is marker.
- Similarly: While / whereas the main course was delicious, the starter was not to my taste.
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"While" typically has a durational meaning (While waiting for the bus, I read the newspaper), but in your example the meaning is one of contrast where it is equivalent to"whereas".
For this reason, your while phrase is called an 'adjunct of concession'.
I take "while" to be a preposition and hence head of the PP While the short-term plan is to treat acute i
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