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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.92Nov21000616@wucc.cfi.waseda.ac.jp>
  6. Date: 20 Nov 92 15:06:16 GMT
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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 with
  14. _but_/_though_:
  15.  
  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 let me know how good they sound to you?
  20. (Please don't care about the correctness of the content.  Just think
  21. about the grammatical forms of the sentences.)
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  23. Yoshiyuki Igarashi @ Tokyo International University  (~~T~~) T T  T
  24. E-mail: igarashi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp                I    I I  I
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