Hello and welcome to today's English lesson. My name is Stuart. In today's
lesson we're looking at how we use although and though in English let's go
to the intro now as I said today's lesson is looking at how we use although
and though in English although and though and we have one two three ways
that we can use these two words they can be a substitute for in spite of or
despite they can also mean but or however and they can also be used in
reduced clauses now this lesson will come in handy if you want to affect your
English and know how we can use these two particular words in different ways
all right now although and though our conjunctions at least in the first
example they are conjunctions okay now the first meaning is similar to in spite
of and despite and we'll see how we can more or less say the same thing with
although and though and in spite of and despite so let's have a look at the
example question although the weather was bad
we had our picnic okay although the weather was bad we had our picnic now
here we're showing a contrast between the main clause and the subordinate
clause okay although normally introduces the subordinate clause although the
weather was bad we had our picnic if we were going to use this with in spite of
or despite remember that despite is a little bit more formal more common to
use in spite of we had our picnic in spite of the bad weather in spite of the
bad weather now the difference here is that when we use in spite of we can
either use a noun afterwards or a gerund we don't have to use a prepositional
phrase like we do with although so although the weather
is bad we had our picnic we had our picnic in spite of the bad weather okay
the bad weather so we can see here that we're using a noun afterwards and we
could also say we had our picnic in spite of the weather being bad okay with
the gerund the second example though he may not be the best tennis player he
enjoys sport though he may not be the best tennis player he enjoys sport okay
so using though we could also say although there's no difference between
the two though although and even though we could also say as well so we could
use three there or despite not being the best tennis player he enjoys playing the
sport okay or he enjoys playing tennis so despite not being the best player he
enjoys playing tennis we would need to say here with despite or in spite of now
the next example is although and though meaning but or however okay but or
however she says she'll call though I don't think she will okay she says
she'll call though I don't think she will now here we can substitute though
for but okay there we go we could substitute though therefore but she says
she'll call but I don't think she will so okay so though or but now in this
second example here there's a bit of a difference okay because though in this
sentence here becomes an adverb so he says he likes fish I don't think he does
though okay I don't think he does though now here the meaning is however so he
says he likes fish I don't think he does though okay
however however I don't think he does and the next one some somebody says the
meal was expensive yeah but it was good though
don't think okay the meal was expensive yeah
but it was good though don't you think it was good however okay it was good
however in this sense however it was good
don't you think okay so although and though meaning but and however remember
that in these particular sentence here it becomes an adverb and here we have
the reduced clause now the reduced clause means that we don't need to put a
subject and a verb into the clause okay it's a reduced clause although quite
intelligent although quite intelligent so we can see here that there's no
subject or verb so although quite intelligent
he had trouble to pass his exams although quite intelligent although he
is quite intelligent although he is but the reduced clause means that we don't
need to put that subject and verb in although he is quite intelligent
he had trouble to pass his exams but the reduced clause no subject or verb
similar in this last sentence as well Jones a football player Jones
although injured managed to play out the game so Jones although he was injured
managed to play out the game so we have the reduced clause again here with
though and although so we've got although and though a meaning in spite
of or despite here meaning but or however and here in a reduced clause so
three different ways that we can use although and though in English now thank
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