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Trump frequently attacks and mocks political enemies on Twitter, and previously went after Thunberg in September, though his Thursday morning broadside was still jarring coming from a sitting US president against a teenager.

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I wonder whether the word "though" here is used appropriately.

And can I use "coming as it did" to replace "coming"? If I can, does "as it did" mean emphasis, namely "as it did" emphasizes the word coming?

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    Here, the contrastive 'though' is between expected verbal hostility and the magnitude and apparent excess displayed in the 'Thursday morning broadside'. // 'Coming as it did' is not an intensified variant of 'coming' here; rather, 'coming' is just a deleted (reduced) form of 'coming as it did'. The lengthier variant sounds slightly more formal (and would probably be afforded an introductory comma). Commented Mar 15 at 16:30
  • It's fine. Why change something that's fine. Commented Mar 15 at 17:14
  • Why do you think it's inappropriate? Would you prefer "although" or something else? (As it did is optional, an adverbial clause modifying the verb: see this question and others you will find if you search for "as you did" as you didn't.) Commented Mar 15 at 17:52
  • I have been arguing about this problem with a Chinese English teacher , who now is living in Canada . I don't know why he doesn't think that this is right. Commented Mar 15 at 23:55
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    Why imbed a question about “though” in a 2019 article? Thurnberg is now 21. Commented Mar 17 at 5:06

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I think there's something slightly wrong or perhaps something that's just not the most effective. While the placement of "though" reads as grammatically correct where it is placed, it doesn't make much sense to me in the context of the sentence. I think it would make the most sense at the very beginning (Though Trump has... it was still jarring). The very last part of the sentence is the most questionable to me. "Was still jarring coming from a sitting US president against a teenager" is a very strange way for a professional writer to phrase that, even though it may be technically correct.

This reads to me like an SAT question, like it was purposefully written grammatically correctly but still non-optimally, so the test-taker could pick the best rewrite.

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