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When to use “although”, “despite”, “in spite of”, “though”, and “even though”

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Those words have the same meaning that is to describe the idea of contrast. But there’s a little difference of using them.

Although is used before a full sentence

Although John has studied hard, his English is not better yet.
Note: John has studied hard is a full sentence that consists of a subject + Verb + object

Despite or in spite of is used before a phrase

Despite rough weather, John still comes on time.
In spite of rough weather, John still comes on time.
Note: Rough weather is a phrase/not a full sentence

Now what if I want to replace “although” in the sentence: “Although John has suited hard”?

The sentence will be like this:

Despite the fact that John has studied hard, his English is not better yet
Or
In spite of fact that John has studied hard, his English is not better yet.

What about “though” and “even though”?

Though is used in informal, while even though is stronger than although and sometimes, even though is used when the condition given is negative but the outcome/result is positive, and although is used in the contrary
eg:

Even though John hadn't studied, he passed the exam.
Although John had studied, he didn’t pass the exam.

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