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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Whats the difference between hence and thus?
"Get thee hence!" is old English for "get out of here" "Henceforwards" is "from this time on" "Thus" means "in this way" In older English, you might say "he opened the door thus", while demonstrating the action In logical senses, you can use them in similar contexts "If x is true, then y is true X is true Hence, y is also true "
- 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
- Difference in logical inevitability between therefore thus hence
"hence" cannot be replaced with "thus" However, "and hence" can be replaced with the following: "and it is thus seen that" Example 4: At the next order, however, the effect of the cross term appears, yielding a term proportional to cos²(ωt) in the solution Thus Hence a non-zero time average arises Here, "therefore" would be inappropriate
- 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
- Hence me contacting you vs hence I contacted you
Cambridge English Dictionary gives the following for this sense of hence: that [the following] is the reason or explanation for: His mother was Italian, hence his name – Luca Peter's leaving at the end of this week – hence his anxiety to get his work finished The prime minister was attending the conference, hence all the extra security
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