(1) The French u2018cela ditu2019 is adversative , whereas the English u2018that is to sayu2019 conveys equivalency.(2) This article will deal with a series of adversative conjunctions.(3) In Russian, there are three adversative conjunctions.(4) Davie qualifies bold assertions and subordinate escape-clauses, paradoxical epithets and sentences opening with an adversative link.(5) A paraphrase may be achieved by taking two short sentences and joining them together with an adversative connector.
