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>Roger Federer won the US Open, for example, in four sets.
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>Why would we want to consider for example to be a conjunction in a sentence
>like this. Or would we?
Not to beat a dead horse, but the important point to consider about "for
example" is not terminology but usage. For example, I would give the above
sentence a low grade because it is not used to support an opinion, which is
how I teach the use of the transitional words "for example." Once again,
I'm not concerned about what my students call grammatical terms but how they
use them. In addition [WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL 'IN ADDITION'!], I would
also point out that "for example" is usually best used to introduce the
sentence - i.e., "For example, RF won the Open in four sets" would, I
think,be preferable.
Geoff Layton
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