{"id":73452,"date":"2020-03-26T06:08:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73452"},"modified":"2020-03-26T06:08:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:08:49","slug":"therefore-how-to-use-therefore-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/therefore-how-to-use-therefore-correctly\/","title":{"rendered":"Therefore | How To Use Therefore Correctly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word\u00a0<b>therefore<\/b>\u00a0is not a\u00a0conjunction, and therefore you cannot use it to connect two\u00a0clauses.<\/p>\n<p>Read the sentence given below. It is an example of the incorrect use of therefore.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is clever\u00a0<b>therefore<\/b>\u00a0he gets good marks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see,\u00a0<b>therefore<\/b>\u00a0is incorrectly used as a conjunction in the above sentence. We can correct this mistake in several different ways. For example, we can split the sentence into two clauses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is clever.\u00a0<b>Therefore,<\/b>\u00a0he gets good marks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that when\u00a0<b>therefore<\/b>\u00a0comes at the beginning of a sentence, we use a\u00a0comma\u00a0to separate it from the rest of the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a full stop, we can use a\u00a0<b>semicolon<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is clever;\u00a0<b>therefore<\/b>, he gets good marks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can also use a conjunction to connect these two clauses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is clever,\u00a0<b>and therefore<\/b>\u00a0he gets good marks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another example is given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was a talented singer\u00a0<b>therefore<\/b>\u00a0she didn\u2019t have much difficulty getting good offers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This sentence needs to be rewritten as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was a talented singer.\u00a0<b>Therefore<\/b>, she didn\u2019t have much difficulty getting good offers.<\/li>\n<li>She was a talented singer;\u00a0<b>therefore<\/b>, she didn\u2019t have much difficulty getting good offers.<\/li>\n<li>She was a talented singer,\u00a0<b>and therefore<\/b>\u00a0she didn\u2019t have much difficulty getting good offers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conjunction\u00a0<b>so\u00a0<\/b>has a similar meaning to\u00a0<b>therefore<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was a talented singer\u00a0<b>so<\/b>\u00a0she didn\u2019t have much difficulty getting good offers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word\u00a0therefore\u00a0is not a\u00a0conjunction, and therefore you cannot use it to connect two\u00a0clauses. Read the sentence given below. It is an example of the incorrect use of therefore. He is clever\u00a0therefore\u00a0he gets good marks.&#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":[2269,2270,2272,2271],"class_list":["post-73452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-therefore","tag-therefore-grammar","tag-therefore-or-so","tag-therefore-vs-so"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73452","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=73452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73453,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73452\/revisions\/73453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}