DSAT R&W: Coordinating Conjunctions, Subordinating Conjunctions & Conjunctive Adverbs 

Thank you for the nice comment. Best wishes on your test tomorrow.

I made a video about "however" and "nonetheless" / "nevertheless" (see ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sfby4wpw0Ak.html), but the basic idea is that they are more or less similar, as they are both contrast words and both transitional adverbs (aka conjunctive adverbs). The slight difference would be that "however" is more of a straightforward contrast word (and more versatile in terms of when it can be used), whereas "nevertheless" is a little more specialized (and closer in meaning to "still" or "regardless"). Example: Their team hadn’t lost a game the entire season. Nevertheless, we beat them by a huge margin last night. Another way to put it is that if it would make sense to use nevertheless, it would probably also make sense to use however. But the reverse isn't necessarily true. Example: "I like vanilla. However, my brother prefers chocolate" vs. "I like vanilla. Nevertheless, my brother likes chocolate." The second one doesn't quite work. But these are pretty specialized examples.... As for "although," it is a subordinating conjunction (just like "until," "unless," "because," "while," "despite," and so on), so it is a different part of speech than "however" or "nevertheless."

Will try to have a video on this by the end of the week.

@@345tutoring Thank you so much,Sir.

Apologies -- I wasn't able to get this video made in time. Will still try to do so, but I know that doesn't help you for tomorrow. But to briefly answer your questions... (1) I would consider "granted" and "admittedly" to be more or less synonyms. Both of them are use to admit or concede a Examples from various dictionries: "Granted, many horror movies don't make sense until the ending, but they at least provide a few scares along the way." "Admittedly, I should not have lost my temper like that" (2) I don't know if I'd call "that said" a synonym of the other two, but it's close. Here are a couple of examples: "Their work has been fairly good. That said, I still think there's room for improvement." "Much of the book was very dull. That said, I have to admit that the ending was extremely clever." (3) "In fact" can be thought of as a synonym of "indeed" (at least, when used as a transition word). Both are used to emphasize or "double down" on the point made in the previous sentence. That said, it can also be used to mean something more like "in truth": "He looks younger, but in fact, he is 60 years old." However, when I've seen it used on the SAT, it's always been in context where it means something more like "indeed."

@@345tutoring Thank you sir