Thereby vs. therefore - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Thereby Adv : by that means, by that; by means of that; "He knocked over the red wine, thereby ruining the table cloth" Thereby implies something happening in some way, by a particular means A former South African describes an experience one of her servants had with the police and thereby illuminates the Kafkaesque nightmare in which black
thereby + (verb+ing) or thereby + (verb in other tenses) Look at both sentences carefully please In sentence 1, thereby follows the comma; however in sentence 2, there is a coordinating conjunction before thereby Whenever you use thereby with an -ing form (-ing form is a present participle here), just place a comma before it
word usage - Regarding the use of and thereby - English Language . . . Grammatically the sentence is OK, but thereby seems to be a wrong word for the intended meaning 'X and thereby Y' means that X and Y are two aspects of the same event If the cone becoming unstable is the cause of spraying etc , but distinct from it, then therefore or as a result is more appropriate than thereby Or perhaps one could say that
Is it possible that thereby and therefore can be used . . . But in terms of sense, the word "thereby" has a positive sense of accomplishment I think "thereby" is never used when something could not be done For example, "I was late and thereby I was not able to enter" To use "therefore" here would be fine, but not "thereby" "Thereby" is also a bit archaic and not typically used in normal conversation
punctuation - Should a semicolon precede an adverb that does not . . . If I had to use the exact words that you used, I would punctuate the sentence exactly as you have: with a comma before thereby and no punctuation immediately after it I suspect, however, that the professor's suggested alteration may have been motivated by dissatisfaction with the wording of the sentence, and by the erroneous idea that a change
vocabulary - What are the limitations on the there + preposition . . . thereby; therefrom; therein; thereof; thereon; thereto; thereupon; therewith; I guess what I'm really asking is whether this is a productive construction I mean, I may sound anywhere between stilted and insane if I overuse it, but I'm more concerned with whether it's considered correct Thoughts appreciated, references doubly so
Difference between whereby and in which? Although most of them are now considered archaic, we maintain a few like whereby, thereby, therefore, heretofore and so on – Anonym Commented Jan 28, 2014 at 1:24
Can I use therefore, so, hence and thus interchangeably? I was taught that, at least, 'therefore' and 'so' and can be used interchangeably, one being informal, the other formal But, even when written, replacing 'so' with 'therefore' doesn't seem correct
rhetoric - The same word used to define itself - English Language . . . What's that figure of speech in which you use the same word to define its meaning, thereby not really defining it Like, "YAML Ain't Markup Language", the expanded form of the abbreviation YAML uses itself in its definition and thus doesn't really define the actual thing