english consession and contrast

8/11/2019 English Consession and Contrast

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Concept and Expression

CONSESSION AND

CONTRAST


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Concession is the admission of a fact which might appea r tofalsify a statement, but which in fact does not.

Example

Nitrogen is scarce in the Earths crust, although for many yearsthe main supply of nitrates came from the rainless parts ofSouth America

CONSESSION


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Consession andContrast

Adverbial

Adjunct

SentenceAdverbial

Clauses ofConcession


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The most common adverbial expressionindicating concession is:

Example :

in spi te of its different composition,duprene resembles rubber more than anyother single substance.It was soon discovered that... regardless

of its nature the tobacco mosaic wassuspectible to chemical attack.

A

D V E R B I A L A D

J U N

C T

in spite of

Regardless


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CLAUSES OF CONCESSIONS

Though

Even though

While

Whilst

Where as

No matter what

Though can be used interchangeably with Altough

Even though is a more emphatic from of

Though


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Nitrogen is scarce in the Earths crust , although for manyyears the main supply of nitrates came from the rainless partsof South America

The name HALOGEN ... is now applied exlusively to the fourelements flourine, chlorine, bromine and iodine, even though

sulphur also unites directly with metals to form salts.

EXAMPLE


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CLAUSES OF CONCESSIONS :

Though

Even though

WhileWhilst

WhereasNo matter what

While, whilst and whereas are

closely related , and can be usedinterchangeably.

They are usually used in balancesentences in which two perhaps

opposite statements are made about

related subjects. two different things are happening atthe same time


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The alumunium is converted into oxide while theother metal is left in the metall ic state.

This sentence could be interpreted e i ther as a t ime or a concession

s ta temen . In the sentence which fo l lows , whi le could only be interpreted tomean concession. I ts sense is very c lose to that of but :

Methods of preparation which involved breaking down largerparticles to colloidal size are referred to as dispersionmethods, while those which cause the growth from molecular

to colloidal size are called condensation or aggregationmethods.


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. . . some [isomers] are found in nature, while others are solelyof artificial origin.

. . . as a ge neral rule, oxides of non-metals are acidic oxideswhilst those of metals are basic oxides.

. . . whilst chlorine will displace iodine from potassium iodideto form potassium chloride, iodine, when heated withpotassium chlorate, will displace chlorine and form iodate.


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In type II shown, C occupies a minimum position, whereas inType III it is a maximum.

No matter what ( how, when, etc) indicates negative concession :

The values l a and l c for an anion are always the same, nomatter what the cation or anion is with which they arerespectively combined.


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Finally, we should note that no matter what may berephrased as whatever. No matter how as however and so on.(these are connectives; and however used in this way is not tobe confused with is use as a sentence adverb-see below) here

is an example, using w hatever:

If the liquid in the beaker is alcohol, ether, chloroform,benzene or turpentine . . . the ammeter will show no current

passing,whatever

increase may be made in the voltageused.


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Sentence adverbials which correspond to the idea of aconcessive clause make explicit the fact that the sentencewhich they introduce may contrast in some way with the

preceding one, or contain some sor t of exception to i t .

The most common of these adverbials are:however

neverheless

on the other hand.

SENTENCE ADVERBIALS


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Fluorine will therefore displace chlorine from its salts,chlorine will displace bromine, and bromine will displaceiodine. Even iodine however is sufficiently electronegativeto accept electrons from nearly all the metals and thus to

unite directly with them... . only 55,000 tons [of nitrogen] were added to the soil in theform of artificial fertilizers. Nevertheless , ar t if icial nitrogenfertilizers have greatly increased farm production, especiallyin Europe an America.

EXAMPLE


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A clear idea of the use of on the other hand will be obtainedfrom the following:

Consider the distillation of a mixture of composition given by X.

Flask will become richer in A and finally, pure A can be obtainedfrom such a mixture but never pure B. If , on the otherhand , a mixture of composition Y is dist illed . . . from allmixtures to the right of the constant boili ng mixture, pure B butnever pure A can be obtained.

EXAMPLE

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