Although or However?

[Mariner]

Originally Posted by Mad-ox

however is always isoleted by a comma.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not true. Consider the sentence:

However expensive, they still bought it.

"You can use however before an adjective or adverb to emphasize that the degree or extend of something cannot change a situation" (Cobuild)

E.g. However hard she tried, nothing seemed to work


In these cases, no comma is required; actually, you can't use a comma.
*However, hard she tried, nothing seemed to work

[victor su]

My teacher told us the difference between these two words when I was in junior 2. We focused too much on grammar.

[emoo]

although

[Epica]

Yes its expensive and cheap and ugly etc so here we use however . idont need it

but

Yes its expensive and cheap and ugly etc so here we use althought . i need it

its true or false ?

[Wuisi]

When use as a discourse marker (to help you organise your ideas and set logical relations between them in the discourse) 'however' establishes a contrast, but not between ideas within the same sentence but between ideas in different sentences (adjoining sentences or paragraphs). Although expresses 'concession', and it is a conjunction.

[soutter]

They bought it, although it was expensive.
Although it was expensive, they still bought it.

(Still is superfluous)

They bought it; however, it was expensive.

However is not a conjunction but an adverb; therefore (that acts like however) a new clause should start.

Although and though are conjunctions; therefore they can join sentences together but do not blindly put commas everywhere.

[soutter]

Surely however, the however in however hard she tried, nothing seemed to work is different from he was born in Paris; however, he is not French?

The however in however hard she tried, has a different function and hence a different meaning to my however for the former is synoymous with the phrase no matter how hard she tried ...