Type III: Contrastive
- coordinators: BUT, YET
- punctuation: ; (implied meaning)
- sentence adverbs: WHILE, HOWEVER, NEVERTHELESS
Contrastive: Examples
- I worked hard all night, but I just couldn’t finished my project.
- Pete roasted the hot roasted peanuts into bags; I stapled them shut.
- We knew our candidates didn’t have a hope of winning; nevertheless,
for weeks we faithfully rang doorbells and stuffed envelopes.
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