A panicked college student is emailing their professor about a missing assignment. Select ALL the sentences that correctly use contrast words to excuse the delay.
The correct answers are:
- I finished the essay on time; however, my dog literally ate my laptop.
- Though I finished the essay on time, my dog literally ate my laptop.
- I finished the essay on time. My dog literally ate my laptop, though.
However is used with a semicolon (or a period) and a comma to link two independent ideas.
Though can act as a subordinating conjunction at the beginning of the clause (just like "although") AND as an adverb at the end of a sentence.
"Although" cannot be followed immediately by a comma to start a new sentence (that creates a sentence fragment), and "however" cannot be squeezed between two commas to join two full sentences (that creates a comma splice).