I have a couple of questions about conjunctive adverbs, and I wonder if
anyone can help me out.

1. Is the conjunctive adverb a closed set, or can a creative writer invent
new ones? Here are two that one of my students has used:

To help gauge self-information, self-concept, and perceived problems, Brand
used the responses to the aforementioned questions and the Tennessee
Self-Concept Scale and the Mooney Problem Check List. Albeit, Brand did not
include the models or the bases for the TSCS and the Check List.

Brand's experimental group did increase in range of self-information and
sense of identity. Though, the experimentals did not grow significantly
more introspective than the controls.

2. When trying to teach students about the necessity of putting a
semi-colon before the conjunctive adverb and a comma afterward in compound
sentences, is it necessary to also contrast this situation with the one in
which the same word is used within a sentence? Do students ever get
confused?

He was an idiot; however, that did not prevent him from being elected.

His idiocy, however, did not prevent him from being elected.


Bill McCleary

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