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= May 9 =

"yet" in this context
Is yet an adverb or a conjunction in the following?


 * Yet it was marked as spam or offensive content.

Context.

I would say a conjunction, but I don't have any (good) arguments. Is it like there is an implicit main clause, for example, "They all disagreed, yet it was marked as spam or offensive content."?

Extra:
 * Should there be a comma after "Yet"? Why or why not?
 * What can be said about starting a sentence with "Yet"? For example, is it "proper"?

--Mortense (talk) 15:43, 9 May 2020 (UTC)


 * This entry from the Cambridge Dictionary explains the different usage. Your example matches B1, meaning "despite that", which is labelled both adverb and conjunction - make of that what you will. Mikenorton (talk) 15:57, 9 May 2020 (UTC)