Questions tagged [however-placement]
For questions that specifically ask about the placement or positioning of "however" in a sentence.
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Is this a correct way to use the word "however"? [closed]
We apologize; however, we are unable to process your request.
I'm sure however is not the correct word to use here. I feel like a causal conjunction might be better. I'm still trying to understand ...
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Uses of 'after all', 'withal', 'anyway', 'anyhow' instead of 'however'?
Suppose, a sentence is: 'He isn't qualified on paper; however, the interviewer recommends to hire him based on his great potential.' Can I use 'after all', 'withal', 'anyway' and 'anyhow' instead of '...
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I don't know which I to choose: "however" or "though"
... beneficial vitamins may be, they mustn't be taken excessively.
I know I can fill in the blank with "however", but I can't understand why "though" cannot be used.
I know both are quite similar, ...
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Is it incorrect to use 'however' as a substitute for 'but' in a sentence?
In my thesis I have written such sentences as:
"Murphy and Levy found that all participants used formality, titles
and please/thankyou with overseas partners, however, what was
perceived as ...
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Can however be used to mean something else other than contrast?
Here are the sentences:
With sea otters to keep the population of sea urchins in check, kelp forests can flourish. In fact, even two years or less of sea otter presence can
reduce the sea urchin ...
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Can "however" have the meaning of "along with that"?
Could you please help me to understand the meaning of the sentence that I have written below? When I translated into my language, I am given the meaning of "however" as "along with that". But I haven'...
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Is there need of a comma after however in this sentence? And how can I improve the structure of this sentence?
According to Klaudia, birds disperse as an immediate response to flood, however they assemble back on the wetland, as the flooded areas elsewhere decline in extent.
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I can't understand the two sentence from hackerone 《blog-How-To-Server-Side-Request-Forgery-SSRF》
A cool pivot to escalate the SSRF to a Remote Code Execution (RCE) is by pushing asynchronous jobs on a Redis queue that then get executed by an application using the gopher:// protocol. It’s really ...
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"If, however in advance one has knowledge..." vs "However, if in advance one has knowledge..."
I am trying to write a paper and and I am not sure of the correct phrasing of a particular sentence. Here is what I am currently using
If, however, in advance one has knowledge of the material ...
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Comma rule with 'however' - is this pedantry? [duplicate]
I have seen, on the website of an illustrious university, the use of 'however' which I always thought to be wrong. It is used twice in the same way, which makes me think it isn't a typo.
Changing the ...
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"However" or "Though"? [duplicate]
Which would be correct in the following context?
They had done this, though, while neglecting one of the most important aspects of our Father’s love, which is freedom.
They had done this, ...
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What is the proper usage of "however" and where is it placed? [duplicate]
What is the correct usage of however; and however?
I sometimes find myself not really checking my email on a daily basis
but, I do however; find this to be very helpful to keep up with what's
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Can “however” be used in middle of a single clause? [duplicate]
(Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I really couldn't find a proper answer to my particular problem—either because it's been never answered that way or I don't know the proper term to search.)
However ...
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How to use however in a contrarian statement that ends with a question? [duplicate]
After making a statement in the prior sentence, I want to make a statement that contradicts it and then asks a question. I want to use however and I want to know to make my contrarian statement. I am ...
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Placing however at the start of a sentence vs placing it in the middle of a sentence?
Basically, what's the difference between this:
However, it didn't mean that I didn't have the potential to become a
rock star.
and this?
It didn't mean, however, that I didn't have the ...
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Usage of "However" instead of "while" [closed]
Can I rephrase the following sentence with "however"?
While application development approaches abound in the software world, the evaluation of the existing programming frameworks tend to focus on ...
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rule of thumb for 'however' in the middle of the sentence?
What is the rule of thumb for using 'however' in the middle of the sentence? For example:
Some people disagree with this theory, however, as it's never been proven right.
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