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| Volcano Newbie Turkey Joined 5527 days ago 5 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English | Message 1 of 2 16 October 2009 at 11:37am | IP Logged |
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Humans depend on these teeming waters for comfort and survival, yet global warming and overfishing threaten to leave the ocean agitated and empty.
Can we use whereas instead yet in this sentence? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6017 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 2 16 October 2009 at 2:11pm | IP Logged |
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"Whereas" is used to compare and contrast two similar but independent facts or actions.
"Yet" takes two related facts or actions and says that the second is true, even though we would expect it to be false after reading the first. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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