also

Also in a Concessive Condition

Level 4

Here also supports an even-if or even-though reading rather than adding another person.

How It Works

A Result Despite a Condition
In a concessive frame, also helps show that the condition does not change the outcome. The speaker may include even if or even though to make this relation explicit.

Different From Simple Addition
She coming also. adds another person to those coming. Even if rain also, we still go. says that rain will not stop the plan. The clause structure tells you which use is intended.

Context Matters
A short condition before also may leave the link implicit. Do not translate every also as even if, or use the pattern without making the condition and the result understandable.

Examples (3)

  1. Even if rain also, we still go.

    Even if it rains, we will still go.

    Rain is a possible obstacle that does not change the plan.

  2. You ask again also, the answer still the same.

    Even if you ask again, the answer will still be the same.

    Repeated asking is the condition; the unchanged answer is the result.

  3. Even though the queue very long also, she waited.

    Even though the queue was very long, she waited.

    The length of the queue is an actual obstacle, not a claim about another person who waited.

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alsoLevel 4Also in a Concessive Condition

Learn This First

Recognize a condition and its result before reading also as a concessive connection rather than simple addition.