It is not usually the case that two are better than one.
I came across the following sentence in a reader’s letter published by a national English daily last week.
It reads, “Even though not all teachers are like that but there are some black sheep in the teaching profession.”
There are two parts in the sentence but are joined by two conjunctions: “Even though” (acting as a subordinating conjunction) and “but” (a coordinating conjunction) – a very common mistake.
Since there two parts only, they need be joined by just one conjunction in either of the following ways:-
1) Even though not all teachers are like that, there are some black sheep in
the teaching profession. [This has become a complex sentence having a
main clause (being the section after the comma) and a subordinate
clause (being the earlier section).]
2) Not all teachers are like that but there are some black sheep in the teaching profession. [This is a compound sentence having two separate sentences joined by the coordinating conjunction, but.]
It reads, “Even though not all teachers are like that but there are some black sheep in the teaching profession.”
There are two parts in the sentence but are joined by two conjunctions: “Even though” (acting as a subordinating conjunction) and “but” (a coordinating conjunction) – a very common mistake.
Since there two parts only, they need be joined by just one conjunction in either of the following ways:-
1) Even though not all teachers are like that, there are some black sheep in
the teaching profession. [This has become a complex sentence having a
main clause (being the section after the comma) and a subordinate
clause (being the earlier section).]
2) Not all teachers are like that but there are some black sheep in the teaching profession. [This is a compound sentence having two separate sentences joined by the coordinating conjunction, but.]
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