I'm not sure why conjunctive adverbs should be any more "open" or "closed"
a set than any other class of words, such as coordinating conjunctions.  I
guess the set is somewhat "closed" by usage, but enough usage can
eventually open it up.    So I would tell that student that "albeit" and
"though" simply look funny and wrong as conjunctive adverbs and will
probably be considered wrong by anybody not sophisticated about language
and usage.

On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, William J McCleary wrote:

> 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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