>Hey guys, welcome to Like A Native Speaker, where I'm gonna be talking about... uhhh, I forget. That's okay, though, I'll think of something.
>[LIKE A NATIVE SPEAKER]
>[SENTENCE FINAL "THOUGH"]
>[CONTRASTIVE CONJUGATION]
>So this week, I want to talk about sentence final though. A lot of students ask me that, they hear it the end of a sentence and it just... confuses them.
>Though is a contrastive conjunction. A conjunction is something that connects...
>A conjunction is something that connects two sentences together. A contrastive conjunction shows that there are differences between the two sentences. "Though" basically works the same as "but". Most textbooks teach and most students learn that though comes either at the beginning of a sentence, sometimes, or usually between two sentences.
>"I ate dinner though I wasn't hungry."
>But that's not always the case. Native speakers, especially in Canada and the United States, often use though at the end of a sentence rather than the middle. It still has the same function, though.
>Eh, eh? See what I did there? I used an example!
>Using though at the end of a sentence is a little bit softer than using it in the middle of a sentence, but the main reason we use it this way is because we don't need that first sentence if we use though at the end.
>Using though at the end of a sentence allows us to take something from context or take something someone else said and make a contrastive statement about it.
>Sigh...
>Seriously, the carton? That stuff is so bad for you.
>It's so good, THOUGH!
>Again, "though" is very similar to "but", but it's important to remember that only though can be used at the end of a sentence. But cannot be used at the end of a sentence.
>So to review, though is a contrastive conjunction but many native speakers use it at the end of a sentence. Especially when the sentence you want to compare with is said by somebody else or just understood from context.
