- word choice - What is the correct usage of meanwhile? - English . . .
"Meanwhile" is a word meaning "while something else is happening " It is used to bridge references to two actions that are happening simultaneously I was sitting in my car at the train station, waiting for my wife, who was supposed to be home on the 6:40 Meanwhile, she was on a different train going to God-knows-where
- Difference: Meanwhile vs meantime - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The dictionary will tell you that they are synonymous; I will tell you that "meanwhile" is more common than "meantime", unless you say "in the meantime" I would use "meanwhile", but "in the meantime" is a close second, with "meantime" dead last, in my opinion
- word usage - Can you start a question using Meanwhile? - English . . .
Meanwhile is an adverb Like all adverbs it can start a sentence: Meanwhile, comma in my absence, did you receive an answer to your mail by one of my colleagues? Recently, comma in my absence, On Tuesday, comma in my absence, etc OED: B adv During the time intervening between one particular period or event and another; while or until a particular event occurs; at the same time; for the
- Synonym for meanwhile - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Meanwhile, Simplex, Lagrange, and NewX are probably the most commonly studied methods in empirical works I have already checked online but I couldn't find much information googling
- Can however and meanwhile be used in the middle of a sentence?
Is it acceptable to have the joining words meanwhile and however in the middle of a sentence? I have always thought that they should open a sentence, unlike other conjunctions such as because or although which can used at the beginning of a sentence or in the middle
- Erstwhile, meanwhile, and - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
If past is to present as erstwhile is to meanwhile, then present is to future as meanwhile is to thingwhile What is the actual word that thing in the above statement refers to? Sometimes you hear
- Is anybody else bothered by the phrase in the meanwhile?
5 Meanwhile (originally two words, mean while) combines mean (intermediate) and while (time period) to describe some interval between two events It has two uses The first is adverbial, equivalent to "during the interval defined", and it's this meaning that grates on you since the preposition in seems superfluous to requirements with the built-in meaning of during
- Meanwhile as a preposition - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A preposition is (by definition) followed by a NP (noun phrase) and forms a bigger unit (a PP - preposition phrase) with it In your example, "meanwhile" happens to be followed by a NP, but does not form a unit with it, so it is not a preposition [There are some words, such as after which can be used both as prepositions and in different ways, but meanwhile is not one of them as far as I know]
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