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- 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
- 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
- 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
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