However + Adjective or Adverb Exercises

However + adjective/adverb means no matter how. It introduces a concessive clause: the first idea may be strong, extreme, or surprising, but it does not stop the second idea. "However hard she tries, she cannot finish on time" means that any degree of effort still leads to the same result. The adjective or adverb comes directly after however.

This pattern is different from the sentence connector however, meaning "but" or "nevertheless". In "However, the plan failed", however stands alone with punctuation. In "However carefully we plan, problems may appear", it is followed by an adverb and means no matter how carefully. Transformations often remove words such as very or extremely because however already covers any degree. Keep the subject and verb after the adjective or adverb: however difficult the task is, however quickly he speaks, however late we arrive. This is especially useful in exam transformations and formal writing.