Structural Phrases

‘not including’, ‘everything in this group, but not this one’ I play football every day apart from Monday.I play football every day except for Monday. All the students passed, apart from Dave.All the students passed except for Dave. I have travelled to all the countries in western Europe apart from…

but, however, on the other hand(Used to introduce a negative after a positive, or a positive after a negative) “He really has studied well this term. That said, I think his behaviour could be better.” “They have been playing well. That said, I don’t think they will win.”

x will be true if y doesn’t happen; x won’t be true if y does happen I’m going to break your legs unless you pay me. Nobody can come in unless their name is on the guest list. I’ll do it, unless anyone here has a problem with that.

won’t do x, because change to y(rejecting one idea in favour of another) When she heard he was a vegetarian, she decided to cook pasta instead of chicken. Instead of eating in, why don’t we go out for dinner? I wanted to stay in bed instead of going to work,…

Can’t do a small thing, so certainly can’t do the bigger thing I can’t remember my first kiss, let alone if it was any good. We don’t have enough money for a hamburger, let alone steak. He can hardly speak English, never mind Chinese. I didn’t notice you had gone,…

It may look like this reason, but it is actually this other reason It’s not that I can’t afford it, it’s just that I think that it is overpriced. It’s not that I want to do it, it’s just that it makes sense. It’s not that I don’t like her,…

certainly, 100%, no question That was, without a doubt, the funniest movie I have ever seen. Without a doubt she is the stupidest person I have ever met! They deserved to beat us, without a doubt. We played very poorly.

for this reason; so as to do this(‘in order to’ is followed by a verb) He went back to the school in order to return his books. She cut her hair in order to stop her ex-boyfriend recognising her. You will need to extend the garage in order to fit…

can’t do one smaller thing, so certainly can’t do a bigger thing can’t do an easy thing, so certainly can’t do a hard thing (start with the lesser thing, then ‘let alone (something bigger)’) I can’t remember my first kiss, let alone if it was any good. We don’t have…