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Tom
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 #3 (permalink) Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:28 am "Despite of" versus "inspite of" |
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i see.. thanks tom! i wouldn't have known that had you not told me....
one last question...
when is it better to use despite over inspite of?
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| #4 (permalink) Sat Jan 13, 2007 23:16 pm "Despite of" versus "inspite of" |
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In spite --- two words
In spite of the fact that the Brewers suck, fans flock to Miller Park to watch the Brewers play.
Despite the fact that the rewers suck, fans...
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| #5 (permalink) Sat Jan 13, 2007 23:18 pm "Despite of" versus "inspite of" |
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Cornelius
IMO, they're more or less equal. Just pick one (until someone else comes along with clearly delineated usage rules for them, anyway. hehe).
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| #6 (permalink) Sun Jan 14, 2007 16:44 pm "Despite of" versus "inspite of" |
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oooppss.! is it really two words... hahhahah.... common error i guess....  thank you so much .. i really have to share this with my friend... salamat (thanks) again! |
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| #7 (permalink) Tue Jan 16, 2007 14:40 pm "Despite of" versus "inspite of" |
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de nada
niente
you're welcome
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| #8 (permalink) Thu May 07, 2009 5:44 am "Despite of" versus "inspite of" |
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despite can be replaced with "even though".
-Despite the fact that they lived in a bad neighborhood, the children were very well behaved.
in spite of can be "because"
-In spite of the bad neighbohood that they grew up in, the children are now very successful.
they can pretty much be switched out unless the person you are writing to/for is very picky and knows the difference. |
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| #9 (permalink) Thu May 07, 2009 6:27 am "Despite of" versus "inspite of" |
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in spite of can be "because"
Because of the bad neighbourhood that they grew up in, the children are now very successful.
This isn't very logical, is it ?
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| #10 (permalink) Thu May 07, 2009 7:59 am reviewing the old information |
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thank u tom and collegee
I knew this information but because of leaving the language use for a long time i forget it ... reviewing is good |
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| #11 (permalink) Thu May 07, 2009 20:38 pm "Despite of" versus "inspite of" |
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| Kitosdad wrote: |
in spite of can be "because"
Because of the bad neighbourhood that they grew up in, the children are now very successful.
This isn't very logical, is it ? |
This is wrong. "In spite of" cannot mean "because".
Because of the bad neighbourhood that they grew up in, the children are now very successful.
This means that the neighborhood had a good effect on the children's character that has helped to make them successful.
In spite of the bad neighbourhood that they grew up in, the children are now very successful.
This means that the neighborhood affected people's character negatively, but surprisingly these children somehow did not succumb to its negative influences. |
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| #12 (permalink) Mon May 11, 2009 4:57 am "Despite of" versus "inspite of" |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
In spite of the bad neighbourhood that they grew up in, the children are now very successful.
This means that the neighborhood affected people's character negatively, but surprisingly these children somehow did not succumb to its negative influences. |
That's what I meant.
Because the children grew up in a bad neighborhood, they wanted to be different, whatever.
Sorry it wasn't that great of an example, but in spite of is pretty much saying that because negative blah blah blah happened, positive blah blah blah happened as a result of the person that the negative thing happened to not wanting the negative thing to happen again.
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