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schoenewaelder
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 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
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 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".
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
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 Message 11 of 11
24 June 2010 at 1:11pm | IP Logged 
oops.


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