{"id":71641,"date":"2019-06-15T05:19:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71641"},"modified":"2019-06-15T05:19:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T05:19:16","slug":"difference-between-however-and-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/difference-between-however-and-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference between however and but"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students often confuse the words however and but. The main difference is that but is a conjunction whereas however is a transitional adverb. That means we use but to connect two clauses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was angry <strong>but<\/strong> she said nothing.<\/li>\n<li>He is struggling to make both ends meet <strong>but<\/strong> he does not want to work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that but is used to connect two contrasting ideas.<\/p>\n<p>We can express the same idea using however.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was angry; <strong>however<\/strong>, she said nothing.<\/li>\n<li>He is struggling to make both ends meet; <strong>however<\/strong>, he does not want to work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As we have already seen, however is not a conjunction. That means we cannot use it to connect two clauses. Put a semicolon or a full stop before however and a comma after it. If however goes after a semicolon, start it with a small letter.<\/p>\n<h3>Exercise<\/h3>\n<p>Rewrite the following sentences using however.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It was raining but we went out.<\/li>\n<li>She worked hard but she failed the test.<\/li>\n<li>I was the most deserving candidate but I didn\u2019t get the job.<\/li>\n<li>She has all the money in the world but she is unhappy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It was raining; however, we went out.<\/li>\n<li>She worked hard; however, she failed the test.<\/li>\n<li>I was the most deserving candidate; however, I didn\u2019t get the job.<\/li>\n<li>She has all the money in the world; however, she is unhappy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students often confuse the words however and but. The main difference is that but is a conjunction whereas however is a transitional adverb. That means we use but to connect two clauses. She was&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[730,729,731],"class_list":["post-71641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-but","tag-but-or-however","tag-however"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71642,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71641\/revisions\/71642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}