Enquiry about linking words

[Showaiter]

Hi!
Hopefully you are fine.

Just a quick question if you don't mind.

If I would like to use "On the other hand,..." , should I use before it "On one hand,..."?

Thank you so much.

Showaiter

 

[corum]

Hi!
Hopefully you are fine.

Just a quick question if you don't mind.

If I would like to use "On the other hand,..." , should I use before it "On one hand,..."?

Thank you so much.

Showaiter

You can but you need not.

 

[IHIVG]

Hi!
Hopefully you are fine.

Just a quick question if you don't mind.

If I would like to use "On the other hand,..." , should I use before it "On one hand,..."?

Thank you so much.

Showaiter

Not necessarily. You can omit it if you want. For example:
Making mistakes is not always a good thing. On the other hand, you learn a lot from them; that's how you make progress.

 

[Showaiter]

Corum and IHIVG,

Thank you so much for your assistance

Kindly regards,
Showaiter

 

[ratóncolorao]

I remember that a teacher of mine forced us to do it. We were obliged to have said "on the one hand" before using "on the other hand". Overkill? I don't know. If you are writing a very formal text perhaps you should use it. There is no harm in doing it.

Neither a teacher nor a native speaker. ;-)

PS My teacher was English native speaker. From the States to be precise.

 

[ratóncolorao]

Browsing around I have found one of the post sent by bhaisahab with the title Stranger than Fiction - 09-Feb.-2010. He uses "on the other hand" without having used previously "on the one hand". In case you may be interested......;-)

(I knew it was overkill :lol: )