adversative

How To Use adversative In A Sentence

• +Adversative+, meaning of (note) _A few, a little_, vs. _few_ and _little_ Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
• Davie qualifies bold assertions and subordinate escape-clauses, paradoxical epithets and sentences opening with an adversative link.
• And so the following particle (as the learned know) may be rendered adversatively: But, if a man sin, he may know his help and cure. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• In Russian, there are three adversative conjunctions.
• In view of the doubtful status of adversative _atque_ at the time of Ovid and the ease of corruption of _atqui_ to _atque_ I have followed Heinsius in reading The Last Poems of Ovid
• This article will deal with a series of adversative conjunctions.
• One sentence should follow another without abrupt break; and, if continuative of it, adversative to it, or an inference from it, and the hearer needs to be advised of this, let it swing into position on the hinge of a fitting connective. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
• The French ‘cela dit’ is adversative, whereas the English ‘that is to say’ conveys equivalency.
• The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative. English: Composition and Literature
• A paraphrase may be achieved by taking two short sentences and joining them together with an adversative connector.