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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
While, Unike, In contrast to - showing contrast
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I'm an ESL teacher, teaching upper intermediate English to adults. We had a lesson on showing contrast, using While, Unlike, and In contrast to. For example, While Bobby likes to drink a lot of milk, Susie cannot because she is allergic.
My students have a valid question which I cannot answer. I've checked grammar books, searched online, and even the teacher's edition of the book we're using doesn't explain WHEN each is used. Is there a simple rule to determine when each is used?
Thank you!
Waiting for my account to be verified, so logging in as anon for now.
I'm an ESL teacher, teaching upper intermediate English to adults. We had a lesson on showing contrast, using While, Unlike, and In contrast to. For example, While Bobby likes to drink a lot of milk, Susie cannot because she is allergic.
My students have a valid question which I cannot answer. I've checked grammar books, searched online, and even the teacher's edition of the book we're using doesn't explain WHEN each is used. Is there a simple rule to determine when each is used?
Thank you!
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No book can possibly explain all words, especially when they are so dissimilar as your examples. While begins clauses whereas/while unlike is usually a proposition and cnannot act as a conjunction. In contrast to is a phrase or a prepsotional idiom.
- No book can possibly explain all words, especially when they are so dissimilar as your examples.
- While begins clauses whereas/while unlike is usually a proposition and cnannot act as a conjunction.
- In contrast to is a phrase or a prepsotional idiom.
- Labels are unimportant, though.
- The way to learn to use words is not to learn "rules" but to learn how they are actually used by educated native speakers.
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No book can possibly explain all words, especially when they are so dissimilar as your examples. While begins clauses whereas/while unlike is usually a proposition and cnannot act as a conjunction. In contrast to is a phrase or a prepsotional idiom. Labels are unimportant, though. The way to learn to use words is not to learn "rules" but to learn how they are actually used by
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Anonymousthe book we're using doesn't explain WHEN each is used.The lesson was obviously designed to alert the students to the meanings of these expressions so that they can recognize them passively when they see or hear them. I suspect that it's not necessary for them to know when to generate these expressions for now or the book would have said something a
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