“Thus” can be used both at the very beginning of the sentence, or between the subject and the verb: At high altitude, the boiling point of water is lower than at sea-level. Thus, pasta takes a longer time to cook.
Q. How do you start a sentence with therefore?
Answer: My guidelines for words such as however, therefore and furthermore (adverbial conjuncts) are as follows. If you use these words at the beginning of a sentence, put a comma after them.
Table of Contents
- Q. How do you start a sentence with therefore?
- Q. Is there a comma after Therefore at the beginning of a sentence?
- Q. What can I say instead of therefore?
- Q. How do you use thus in a sentence?
- Q. Is hence why good English?
- Q. What is a hence in English?
- Q. Can a sentence start with hence?
- Q. How is hence used in a sentence?
Q. Is there a comma after Therefore at the beginning of a sentence?
Conjunctive adverbs as introductions In this sentence, the first comma is used to separate the first independent clause from the second independent clause, and the second comma is needed after the introductory word therefore. You do not need a third comma between and and therefore.
Q. What can I say instead of therefore?
Synonyms of therefore
- accordingly,
- consequently,
- ergo,
- hence,
- so,
- thereupon,
- thus,
- wherefore.
Q. How do you use thus in a sentence?
Use the adverb thus in place of words like therefore or so when you want to sound proper. Use thus interchangeably with words like consequently, ergo, hence, and just like that. For example, if you want to sound fancy you could say no one showed up for water aerobics, thus the class was cancelled. It had to be thus.
Q. Is hence why good English?
It’s correct if used correctly, but is probably far more often used incorrectly. ‘Hence’ originally means ‘from here’. So ‘Hence the reason’ means ‘the reason comes from here’ – ‘here’ being something you’ve already said. The ‘here’ isn’t the reason itself, though – it’s something underpinning the reason.
Q. What is a hence in English?
1 : from this place : away. 2a archaic : henceforth. b : from this time four years hence. 3 : because of a preceding fact or premise : therefore.
Q. Can a sentence start with hence?
“Hence” is a final conjunction; hence it should not be used at the beginning of a sentence in formal writing, according to the Chicago Manual of Style. Other final conjunctions include thus, so and therefore. You could rephrase your sentence as: I am not feeling well; hence I am unable to work.
Q. How is hence used in a sentence?
‘Hence’ is typically used in a sentence to show a cause and effect relationship between two parts of a sentence: ‘Because this happened, hence this will now happen. ‘ In this way, it’s used in a similar way to words like ‘therefore,’ ‘thus,’ and ‘consequently.
