Nonetheless means even so, however, despite this. It shows that the next idea is true in spite of what was said before. It means the same as nevertheless, and in essays it is handy to alternate the two so that you don't keep repeating however.
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Sentence. Nonetheless, + sentence; clause; nonetheless, + clause; adjective + but nonetheless + adjective; clause, but + clause + nonetheless
- The survey was small. Nonetheless, its results raised serious questions about how students manage stress.
- The changes were minor but nonetheless useful for new employees.
- It was freezing and the tickets cost a fortune, but we had a great time nonetheless.
What changed
First versionThe course was expensive, nonetheless it was worth every penny.
RevisionThe course was expensive; nonetheless, it was worth every penny.
It is tempting to join two sentences with just a comma before nonetheless: The course was expensive, nonetheless it was worth it. But nonetheless doesn't link two sentences the way but does. It needs a full stop or a semicolon before it and a comma after it. The words stayed the same; only the punctuation changed.
Nonetheless introduces something that happened in spite of the first fact: The team lost two key players. Nonetheless, they won the league. If two ideas are simply different and the first doesn't get in the way of the second, use whereas: My sister loves the sea, whereas I prefer the mountains. In conversation, nonetheless can go at the end of a sentence: We went out nonetheless.
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My flight was delayed by four hours and my luggage got lost. ___, I gave my talk at the conference on time, and it went well.
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Nonetheless — The delay and the lost luggage could have ruined the talk, but it went well in spite of these problems. So the answer is Nonetheless. In addition adds another fact of the same kind and would suit another problem, not a success.
Write two sentences about a difficult day at work or in your studies. In the first, name two problems; in the second, use Nonetheless to say what you still managed to do.
This morning my laptop crashed and half of my team were off sick. Nonetheless, we sent the client the final design before six o'clock.
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