Let's look at the sentence pattern.

This pattern is the structure that most of our examples will follow.

Contrast linker plus clause plus clause.

Let's see how a line from the dialogue follows this pattern.

Even though it's not cheap, I love playing tennis here. Even though is our contrast linker.

It helps connect two ideas that don't naturally go together.

It's Not Cheap is the first clause.

This presents the negative or challenging idea.

I love playing tennis here is the second clause. It shares a positive feeling that contrasts with the first idea.

Normally, if it's expensive, people would avoid going there.

But the speaker is saying, yes, it's expensive, but I still enjoy playing tennis here.

This idea can also be rephrased using a different structure.

Claws plus contrast linker

plus claws.

In this kind of pattern, the contrast linker comes in the middle. Let's rephrase our example to match.

I love playing tennis here, even though it's not cheap.

And that's the other pattern you can use.

Some contrast markers we'll look at in this lesson

are while, even though, and although.

We can use some contrast linkers using a slightly

different grammar pattern, too.

Let's look at the second pattern we'll see in this lesson. Contrast

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