schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5562 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 9 of 11 23 June 2010 at 11:40am | IP Logged |
You can keep the "as" if you start the next clause with a "however". This gives more equal weight to the successes and failures, while starting with "although/though" is a bit dismissive of the success and concentrating on the failure.
Although 1 and 2 look a bit clumsy, they're not totally unacceptable, especially in spoken language.
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Declan1991 Tetraglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6441 days ago 233 posts - 359 votes Speaks: English*, German, Irish, French
| Message 10 of 11 23 June 2010 at 1:21pm | IP Logged |
schoenewaelder wrote:
You can keep the "as" if you start the next clause with a "however". |
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Not for me.
"As the book is an interesting account of the jungle, however it fails to convey the horror of life there" makes no sense. It has to be, "although the book is interesting, at the same time it fails to convey reality".
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schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5562 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 11 of 11 24 June 2010 at 1:11pm | IP Logged |
oops.
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