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Thank you We sneak However having beginning of this sentence

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shmoop however howard tried he couldn't get lauren to agree

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to go on a date with him However just because

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she didn't say yes the first thirty seven times the

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asteroid doesn't mean he was ready to give up words

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like however therefore and nevertheless are wonderfully useful in the

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world of grammar These conjunction adverbs not only working junctions

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that joined two main clauses together but they can also

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serve as klaus modifying adverbs Now while we're all familiar

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with the adverb which modifies verbs adjectives and other adverb

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the conjunction of advert is a bit more mysterious So

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here's the four one one conjunctivitis verbs like however are

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transitional words that just don't pull together two clauses that

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could stand his independent sentences but also tells us about

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the relationship between the two clauses Not that let's look

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at some examples for when we see the conjunctivitis ever

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however at the beginning of a sentence and there's no

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comma in sight The word however is being used to

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mean in whatever manner or to whatever extent so say

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we have the sins However large the bouquet of flowers

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howard gave her orin still said no to a date

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or say we have the scent However howard beg his

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words did not move lauren stone cold heart and these

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two examples that conjunction advert however isn't being used as

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a conjunction How do we know this Because however isn't

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joining anything together Certainly not howard Lord oh now if

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we want to see the word however being used as

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a conjunction then we need for it to start a

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sentence and be followed by a comma in this case

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however always means nevertheless lauren always ate lunch in the

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cafeteria with her friends To avoid howard however howard would

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still try to sit at her table girl here we

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have two independent clauses However at the beginning of the

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second sense is what brings the clauses together Here's another

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example lauren told howard she didn't want a boyfriend problem

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he persisted in asking her out again However that starts

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The second sense is what joins the two clauses together

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Some people say that it's all kinds of incorrect and

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start a sentence with the word However when however is

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a conjunction however if some elderly grammarian who cannot abide

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starting a sentence with however is one grading papers It's

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best to just follow her rules and use this work

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around instead of ending the first clause with a period

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joined the two clauses together with the semi colon will

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say we have the clauses lauren was busy working on

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friday night period However howard showed up at target to

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continue his wooing Our clauses are two sentences and the

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second sentence begins with a however that means nevertheless way

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have angered the elderly grammarian er grammarian angry so let's

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employ the workaround Lauren was busy working on friday night

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semi colon However howard showed up at target to continue

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his wooing No we turn the two sentences in tow

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One sentence using the semi colon however no longer begins

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an independent second sense The elderly grammarian is appeased grammarian

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abused All right we can use this same working around

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with other conjunctivitis verbs like indeed And nevertheless for example

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we could say lauren was getting tired of howard's b

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s semicolon indeed she told him she'd call the cops

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if he didn't leave her alone Or we could say

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howard appeared to listen the lauren when she told him

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to quit semi colon Nevertheless he kept asking her out

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there's one other way We could avoid using a however

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to start a sentence We could place that however in

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the middle of the sentence surrounded by comments lauren had

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a plan for getting rid of howard It meant comma

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however comma she had to say yes to a date

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lauren comma however comma was so badly behaved that she

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horrified the conjunctivitis Vermin however serves many purposes It can

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be used as an adverb aura's a conjunction it can

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start a sentence or be in the middle of a

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sentence It may be followed by a comma surrounded by

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commas or there may be no call is near it

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at all It all depends on what we meant by

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however and whether or not there's an elderly grammarian in

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control of the red pen As for lauren she had

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a fabulous time on her date Howard however will never

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look at lauren the same way again He'll certainly never 00:04:39.69 --> [endTime] asked her out for a second date Grammarian appeased

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