5 exercises — practise conceding a point with "Granted" before your counter-argument.
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Which sentence correctly uses "Granted," as a standalone concessive opener before a contrasting statement?
"Granted, the new library is more verbose, but it eliminates an entire class of null-pointer bugs" correctly uses the past participle "Granted" alone, followed by a comma, as a fixed concessive opener. Option B wrongly uses the gerund "Granting". Option C wrongly uses the base form "Grant". Option D adds an unnecessary "that" directly after "Granted" when it is used standalone.
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Which sentence correctly uses "granted that" followed by a full clause, instead of the standalone comma form?
"Granted that the migration adds operational risk, staying on the unsupported version is riskier still" correctly uses "granted that" directly followed by the conceded clause, with no comma between "granted" and "that". Option B incorrectly inserts a comma there. Option C adds an extra comma after "that". Option D wrongly uses the base form "grant" instead of "granted".
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Which sentence correctly places "granted" parenthetically inside a sentence, set off by commas, rather than at the start?
"The refactor, granted, took longer than planned, but it paid for itself within a month" correctly encloses the parenthetical "granted" in commas on both sides. Option B is missing the first comma. Option C wrongly uses the base form "grant". Option D wrongly uses the gerund "granting".
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Which sentence correctly follows a "Granted" concession with "but" to introduce the contrasting point, avoiding a comma splice?
"Granted, the dashboard is slower to load, but it now surfaces the metrics engineers actually need" correctly uses the coordinating conjunction "but" to join the two clauses after the comma. Option B omits "but", creating a comma splice. Option C drops the comma after "Granted". Option D uses "however" without the semicolon or period it requires between independent clauses.
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Which sentence correctly uses "Granted" to concede a reviewer's point at the start of a rebuttal comment on a pull request?
"Granted, this approach adds a dependency, but it removes roughly 400 lines of hand-rolled parsing logic" correctly opens with the fixed concessive marker "Granted," followed by the conceded clause and a contrasting clause joined with "but". Option B wrongly uses the third-person verb form "Grants". Option C omits the required comma after "Granted" and misplaces "it". Option D incorrectly adds the pronoun "It" before "granted".