Timeline for 'Whereas' as conjunction between main clause and subordinate clause?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 11, 2013 at 8:03 | comment | added | JustinC | Does wherewith (also marked as archaic) fall into the same category? Could it substitute, or is it as badly out of place? | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 15:26 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Yes. OP is trying to use whereas in the archaic sense that normally only occurs in legal documents (at the beginning of a sentence), where it can be paraphrased as it being the case that (and means approximately nothing). The still-common modern sense is (from OED) introducing a statement of fact in contrast or opposition to that expressed by the principal clause: while on the contrary - which doesn't fit OP's context at all. | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 14:56 | history | edited | p.s.w.g | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2013 at 14:51 | history | answered | p.s.w.g | CC BY-SA 3.0 |