Speech patterns

1. I learned much from those visits, restricted though they were. Hard working though he was, there was never enough money to pay the bills.

Strange though it may seem I am a great admirer of the great film-makers of those days.

2. The Moscow Arts Theatre performed Chekhov as sad comedy rather than as tragedy with humour.

Astrov was presened as a young prophet rather than as the cynic of Olivier's interpretation at the Old Vic.

3. The ballet... called on her to act rather than to dance. These short visits are more likely to mislead rather than to educate.