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Significats de oppositive en anglès

Expressing antithesis or opposition.

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        Examples for "adversative"
        Examples for "adversative"
        1
        But the conjunction is often omitted in copulative and adversative clauses, as in Sec.
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        2
        They are sometimes adversative; sometimes they are simply cumulative.
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        3
        Another example is, "Only the star dazzles; the planet has a faint, moon-like ray" (adversative).
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        4
        Why use adversatives in the same breath with 'ride'?
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