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- meaning in context - Referring to past times with hence - English . . .
For me, the word hence can only be used to refer to times in the future, and the writer of the above quote should have used ago However, hence is a pretty rare word, and it's possible that the past usage of hence is in fact standard, but I've never noticed it Is the past usage of hence sanctioned by any important authorities? Does it have a
- Can hence be used at the beginning of a sentence?
He is sick, hence his absence It is winter, hence the snow I just received a promotion at work, hence the new car His mother was a piano teacher, hence his interest in classical music In all of these, the second clause is the situation or thing being queried and the first gives an explanation reason as to how it arose
- meaning - When to use whence instead of hence - English Language . . .
Consider: “Vengeance calls me hence, but even were it otherwise I would not dwell longer in the same land with the kin of my father’s slayer and of the thief of my treasure ”“‘Go hence, ’ he said, ‘unto a swift and bitter death ’” “Yet if there be any on whom the shadow of our curse has not yet fallen, I should find at least
- Learning to end sentences with hence. Examples?
The word hence can have a temporal meaning similar to "down the road" or "later": The order was placed in January and the products were shipped three months hence You take out a loan for $10,000 and by the time it is paid off five years hence, you will have paid the bank quite a lot of money in interest
- Hence and hence why - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The Heyman quote could be recast Hence our retaining the original name the “Trio” (if one allows the use of sentence fragments); the sense of hence here is, as tchrist says, from this point or from this source (AHDEL) or which is why (Huizhe) or this is the reason for With this sense, Charles needs I like bananas, hence my eating them by
- Correct position of the word hence - English Language Usage Stack . . .
My feeling is we usually use 'hence' with quite a simple clause, or even just a noun - 'I fell off my bike - hence the bruises' (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary) – RandomIdeaEnglish Commented Jan 12, 2011 at 13:57
- mathematics - Use of hence in mathematical English - English Language . . .
"Hence" is also sometimes used as a substitute for "that explains " For example: "I didn't have time to cook Hence the carry-out on the table " Under this alternative use of "hence," 1'' above is merely awkward and not incorrect (though it probably needs a semicolon instead of a comma) 1' and 2 are wrong –
- Hence, therefore and so in mathematical proofs
Hence and therefore may be considered synonyms, or at least interchangeable I suspect that hence is preferred where the inference derives from the immediately preceding statement, though not necessarily Therefore shows a broader scope and appears after a long descriptive 'method' leading to the proof QED
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