187. How To Express Yourself Better With Connectors: Part 2
Confident Business English
The Importance of in Spite of and Despite
In spite of the fact that and despite is different to in spite of. Even though needs to be followed by a subject verb clause or basically a sentence not a noun. The Iats are more formal even though it's much more day to day. If you use them out of place, it sounds too much. It would be much more natural to say, I really, really enjoyed my holiday because it was actually raining all the time.
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