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Is there a comma after and/or before "though" in a sentence?

For example, I am talking about a method that is very slow. At the end of the paragraph I say:

We will see in the following sections though there is a workaround to reduce the exponential explosion of the computational time.

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    I would rather use although at the beginning of the sentence, or not use though at all.
    – apaderno
    Aug 20, 2012 at 13:07
  • That after though is wrong. remove it, then the sentence makes sense.
    – Matt E. Эллен
    Oct 3, 2012 at 9:15
  • Er, I think the "that" was needed (or is at least preferable). The "that" marker helps the reader parse the sentence correctly.
    – F.E.
    Jan 16, 2014 at 23:27

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However, as we will see in the following sections, there is a workaround to reduce the exponential explosion of the computational time.

is, I think, a better way to express what you are trying to say. If you wanted to use the word "though", I believe you would put commas both before and after the word.

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  • I agree with you. However, I think I am overusing the word "however" in my document. I have to find some alternatives! Thanks
    – Felipe Aguirre
    Aug 20, 2012 at 13:43
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    @FelipeAguirre: In your particular sentence you can simply drop the 'though' without any other changes. It is unnecessary.
    – Jim
    Aug 20, 2012 at 15:05
  • I think that he wishes to have some way to express the word though, in it's meaning "despite the fact that".
    – Michael Blaustein
    Aug 20, 2012 at 15:29
  • You are both right. But my question served a double purpose, to know how to use though in this particular phrase and in other phrases in general. Maybe I was not precise enough...
    – Felipe Aguirre
    Aug 20, 2012 at 15:40
  • We will see in the following sections, though, that there is a workaround to reduce the exponential explosion of the computational time.
    – Michael Blaustein
    Aug 20, 2012 at 15:48

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