Hello,teachers,how to explain while in this sentence.?

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]Hello,teachers,how to explain while in this sentence.?

While volleyball is her main focus, she's also great at basketball.

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You can change it to "although" and keep the same meaning.
 

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Thank you!
 

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You only need to leave a space after a comma, not before it.
 

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You only need to leave a space after a comma, not before it.

The odd punctuation may be down to the writing systems as the exclamation mark is also strange in my browser.
 
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