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  2. From: igarashi@cfi.waseda.ac.jp ("Yoshiyuki Igarashi")
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Q about the usage of but and though
  5. Message-ID: <IGARASHI.92Nov20235335@wucc.cfi.waseda.ac.jp>
  6. Date: 20 Nov 92 14:53:35 GMT
  7. Sender: news@wsdnws.waseda.ac.jp
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  9. Organization: Centre for Informatics, WASEDA University
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  13. I'd like to know the acceptability of the following sentences using
  14. _but_/_though_.
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  16. (1) Congressmen, but not the general public, can propose a bill.
  17. (2) Congressmen(,) though not the general public(,) can propose a bill.
  18.  
  19. Would you be kind enough to tell me how good they sound to you?
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  22. Yoshiyuki Igarashi @ Tokyo International University  (~~T~~) T T  T
  23. E-mail: igarashi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp                I    I I  I
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