Do your English sentences feel too short and simple? One magic word can help you sound more fluent and professional: “although”. In this lesson, I’ll show you how to use “although” to join two ideas into one smooth, advanced sentence. It’s perfect for exams, essays, job interviews, and meetings. Today, we’ll take some basic sentences and upgrade them to intermediate and then advanced level. After watching this class, you’ll be able to do it on your own. You’ll learn where to put the comma, how “although” differs from “though” and “even though,” and avoid the three most common “although” mistakes. We’ll practice with six examples. For more small changes that make a big difference to your English, take my course, Correct Your English Errors in 10 Minutes a Day: https://10.bexenglish.com/

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In this lesson:
0:00 Complex English Sentences with "although"
7:04 Structure: How to use "although"
9:55 "Although" in negative sentences
11:10 "Although", "though", "even though"
12:07 "Although": Common Mistakes
14:50 Test Yourself!

TRANSCRIPT:
Are you tired of using short, choppy sentences in English? Do you wish that you could use longer, smoother sentences to express your ideas and your thoughts? Well, there are many ways to do that in English, and in this lesson, I'm going to show you one extremely effective, powerful way to do that with one word, "although". Alright? So, are you ready? Let's get started.

So, let's look at these three sentences first. The first one says, "It was raining. We went outside." Perfectly correct sentence, it is what it is. The second sentence, "It was raining, but we went outside." The third sentence, "Although it was raining, we went outside." So, all three sentences conveyed the same information, but in very different ways, right? You could see that. You could hear it. You could feel it.

So, basically, if we analyze these sentences in terms of grammar, in terms of vocabulary, and so on, the first one is more basic, right? It's more basic because it has two simple sentences which are correct, but they're two short, simple sentences, okay? So, that's, for example, a beginner level. The second one says, "It was raining, but we went outside." Now, the two ideas are connected to show that even though it was raining, we went outside. So, this is a little bit better, so this is more at an intermediate level, shall we say, okay? This is actually called a compound sentence; I'm going to explain that in a minute. And the last one says, "Although it was raining, we went outside." So now, this one is actually a more advanced sentence. So, the first was beginner level, the second was intermediate level, and the third is more advanced level. So, I'm going to show you, in case you're here or you're here, how to go to this higher level, alright? So, what are we also saying here? Let's understand. So, now you know beginner, intermediate, advanced, right? Let's also analyze these three sentences in terms of what they are grammatically.

The first one is basically an example of two simple sentences. What do I mean by a simple sentence? It has a subject and it has a verb; "It was raining", okay? So, they're fine, but they're just two short, simple sentences.

This one is called a compound sentence. In a compound sentence, we have a proper full sentence here, and we have a full sentence here, like, "It was raining, we went outside." This has a subject, has a verb, has a subject, has a verb, right? So, you're good, but it's connected with the word "but" to show contrast, to show something different, something unexpected on the other side of the sentence. So, this one is called a compound sentence. Two simple sentences connected by particular words, okay? Which we call coordinating conjunctions, but don't worry about that right now. Just look at it as what it is.

And the last one says, "Although it was raining, we went outside." So, that more advanced sentence is actually called a complex sentence because we have used a particular word, like "although", which in grammar is called a subordinating conjunction, but again, don't worry about it. Just start using it in the proper way, which you'll learn today. And we say, "Although it was raining, we went outside." […]