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06 Feb 2014, 04:09
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Can anyone kindly enlighten me with the use of however in the following line, an exerpt from Forbes:
"One thing was different however, each had the stoic look of money, not the I’m better than you look, but the comfortable look of a wealth steward." (The topic is about the Tiger 21 network - assumedly the world's wealthiest networking group, from the link https://www.forbes.com/sites/markfidelman/2014/01/07/tiger-21-meet-the-wealthiest-most-powerful-social-networking-group-in-the-world/).
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"not the I'm better than you look but the...steward" - does it act as an absolute modifier?
"One thing was different however, each had the stoic look of money, not the I’m better than you look, but the comfortable look of a wealth steward." (The topic is about the Tiger 21 network - assumedly the world's wealthiest networking group, from the link https://www.forbes.com/sites/markfidelman/2014/01/07/tiger-21-meet-the-wealthiest-most-powerful-social-networking-group-in-the-world/).
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"not the I'm better than you look but the...steward" - does it act as an absolute modifier?
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06 Feb 2014, 13:52
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Dear sgangs,
I'm happy to help.
This sentence is a bit informal, not really up to the standards of the GMAT. Technically, when a phrase is used as a modifier, the words need to be hyphenated:One thing was different however, each had the stoic look of money, not the I’m-better-than-you look, but the comfortable look of a wealth steward.
The word "however" is used here as a synonym for "nevertheless."
The final clause is a special kind of noun-modifier called an appositive phrase. See:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-gram ... e-phrases/
Some other examples of appositives:
Last month I read a book, a really good book.
She has a new car, an Audi.
He has a new roommate, not a best friend, but a person with whom it is easy to live.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
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