教你正确用(六)

For this column,we'll take a look at a few commonly used little words that, to some extent, all mean "but".The words I chose are for today: but (of course),yet,still,and except.Let's combine them into various pairs to compare and contrast their similarities and differences. Yet and But There's not much difference between "yet" and "but" when they are used as conjunctions.Here are a couple of examples where "but" and "yet" can be used interchangeably: He lied to her,but she forgave him.

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