[Jill Malcolm]

Do you know when to use and and when to use but?

What is the difference in meaning?

[David Muller]

It is said that ” but” is the most unpleasant word in the English language ( because it mostly negates everything else that has gone before)

[Jill Malcolm]

perfect… go to the top of the class!!

 

[Judy Finlay]

using but and and …

but denotes a negation such as “I would love to come to dinner but am a vegetarian. Is that a problem?” Whereas and simply adds more information to create a complex rather than a simple sentence. “She was wearing a red sweater <b>and</b> a denim skirt”