word choice - What is the correct usage of meanwhile? - English . . . "Meanwhile" is a word meaning "while something else is happening " It is used to bridge references to two actions that are happening simultaneously I was sitting in my car at the train station, waiting for my wife, who was supposed to be home on the 6:40 Meanwhile, she was on a different train going to God-knows-where
Can however and meanwhile be used in the middle of a sentence? Is it acceptable to have the joining words meanwhile and however in the middle of a sentence? I have always thought that they should open a sentence, unlike other conjunctions such as because or although which can used at the beginning of a sentence or in the middle
meaning - Difference: Meanwhile vs meantime - English Language Usage . . . Dictionary com indicates that both words can be used as either a noun or adverb, but I've only heard meanwhile used as an adverb and meantime used as a noun Meanwhile, back at the ranch John was saddling up his horse My plane doesn't leave for another two hours, in the meantime I'll grab a bite to eat and catch up on some reading
word usage - Can you start a question using Meanwhile? - English . . . Meanwhile may be used to start a sentence, but not in the way you have attempted “I was absent with illness Meanwhile, my colleagues dealt with my emails” Meanwhile here refers to the period during which I was ill Meanwhile = until something expected happens, or while something else is happening: Cambridge dictionary
Meanwhile as a preposition - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In your example, "meanwhile" happens to be followed by a NP, but does not form a unit with it, so it is not a preposition [There are some words, such as after which can be used both as prepositions and in different ways, but meanwhile is not one of them as far as I know]
Synonym for meanwhile - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Meanwhile, Simplex, Lagrange, and NewX are probably the most commonly studied methods in empirical works I have already checked online but I couldn't find much information googling Really appreciate your help
Erstwhile, meanwhile, and - English Language Usage Stack Exchange If past is to present as erstwhile is to meanwhile, then present is to future as meanwhile is to thingwhile What is the actual word that thing in the above statement refers to? Sometimes you hear people say that such and such will happen in " the next [ little ] while", so I'm wondering if the possible neologism nextwhile would suit
Does positive mean good and negative bad? Meanwhile, an affirmative statement would be "I am a human being " Negative and positive are opposites in other senses Mathematically, there are positive (+) numbers, and negative (-) numbers I can have a positive (good) attitude, or a negative (bad) attitude
grammaticality - Usage of the word interimly - English Language . . . The following dictionaries list interim as an adverb, meaning in the meantime, meanwhile (as in, Interim, take courage, and make your calculations anew), with a note that it is rare or even archaic: the OED, Lexico, Collins, Wiktionary, Infoplease, and dictionary com Interimly is also not present in Black's Law Dictionary, 8th ed