And yet – English Grammar Profiler

In the English Grammar Profile ‘and yet’ or ‘yet’ is listed at

C2 Point 24 in CONJUNCTIONS

“CONCESSIVE to combine sentences, often unexpected”

C1 Point 20 in CONJUNCTIONS coordinating

CONCESSIVE ‘(and) yet’ to combine phrases and clauses to introduce a contrast, often unexpected.

In the English Vocabulary Profile, ‘yet’ as a conjunction is listed as:

B1

used to connect two words, phrases, or clauses when the second part adds something surprising to the first part.

Example of C1 use with clauses:

The book is useless and yet you come all the way back to Berlin to get it.
Why?

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phrases:

And the very unsatisfying yet scientific answer is: it’s too hard.

A search in iWeb for _JJ yet _JJ:

1 SIMPLE YET EFFECTIVE 2728 2 SIMPLE YET POWERFUL 1975 3 SIMPLE YET ELEGANT 1348 4 SIMPLE YET STYLISH 506 5 SIMPLE YET PROFOUND 382 6 SIMPLE YET SOPHISTICATED 370 7 SIMPLE YET BEAUTIFUL 333 8 GENTLE YET EFFECTIVE 308 9 SIMPLE YET DELICIOUS 307 10 POWERFUL YET SIMPLE 291 11 SOFT YET DURABLE 257 12 SMALL YET POWERFUL 224 13 POWERFUL YET EASY 219 14 STYLISH YET PRACTICAL 196 15 DURABLE YET LIGHTWEIGHT 193 16 POWERFUL YET EASY-TO-USE 188 17 STRONG YET LIGHTWEIGHT 177 18 SIMPLE YET STUNNING 173 19 SIMILAR YET DIFFERENT 172 20 SIMPLE YET FUNCTIONAL 161 21 CHALLENGING YET REWARDING 156 22 COMFORTABLE YET STYLISH 143 23 STRONG YET FLEXIBLE 143 24 SIMPLE YET FUN 142 25 DIFFICULT YET FRIENDLY 139 26 CASUAL YET ELEGANT 134 27 SUBTLE YET POWERFUL 132 28 SIMPLE YET COMPLEX 127 29 SIMPLE YET EFFICIENT 126 30 SIMPLE YET IMPORTANT 123

31 SIMPLE YET CHIC 122

iWeb corpus:
And yet + noun (up to 4 spaces to the right)

1 PEOPLE 3320

2 TIME 2111 3 OTHERS 1220 4 WAY 711 5 YEARS 678 6 THINGS 652 7 MAN 603 8 WORLD 560 9 LIFE 552 10 REASON 529 11 DAY 464 12 PART 443 13 MEN 420 14 YEAR 403 15 THING 388 16 TIMES 386 17 THERES 374 (this is not a noun but a lazy typo) 18 END 367 19 LOT 363

20 GOVERNMENT 340

Nouns (up to 4 spaces to the left of a full stop)

1 YEARS 390

2 WORLD 366 3 TIME 331 4 LIFE 299 5 PEOPLE 217 6 DAY 206 7 YEAR 199 8 WAY 159 9 THINGS 158 10 TIMES 117 11 HISTORY 115 12 DEATH 110 13 THING 102 14 WAR 95 15 MAN 93 16 PLACE 92 17 WORK 92 18 OTHERS 90 19 BUSINESS 89

20 GAME 87