1. Justice must be done even if the sky falls. 
2. Truth will out, even if buried in a golden coffin.
3. We shouldn’t slight anybody even if he’s a nobody.
4. I will always be, even if love pale.
5. I will always love, even if you are not.
6. Try your best, even if the task seems difficult.
7. Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
8. Even if someone breaks your heart, there is always someone willing to mend it.
9. Even if you did see someone, you can’t be sure it was him.
10. I will make this radio work even if I have to stay up all night.
11. You’ll have to lump it even if you don’t like it.
12. Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts.
13. Do not deceive me, you knew even if your lie I all can believe.
14. Oil and water don’t mix. Even if you shake them together they separate into two layers.
15. Even if one person is hurt that is one too many.
16. I love you even if you fall in love with another of her.
17. Walkers should stick to obvious paths, even if they are badly eroded.
18. Some people will complain even if they have no genuine grievance.
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19. Miss forever looking at you even if you never found me.
20. Stand up for something, even if it means standing alone sometimes.
21. Even if the other win others, our attitude is victory.
22. Even if the road is not flat also should make oneself of the sun.
23. Even if we can’t be together in the end, I’m glad you were a part of my life.
24. Even if there is no end, I still love you.
25. Even if the future situat I will always be at your.
26. If you love someone, you will know everything about her without asking her; if you don’t love someone, you will forget everything even if she told you everything.
27. Even if the road is bumpy, the wheel must go forward; even if the river roaring waves, ships are sailing.
28. No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it’s enough to light up the whole future life.
29. If u love someone, u will know everything about her without asking her; if u don’t love someone, u will forget everything even if she told u everything.
30. Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting.It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.
During conversation practice with one of my students, I asked her, “If you won the lottery, would you still do your job?”
She’s a yoga teacher and incredibly passionate about her work, so she answered,
“Of course I’d continue teaching even I didn’t have to work.”
If while reading her answer, you felt like something is wrong with the sentence, you’re right. But why is it incorrect? Let’s find out.
Even
We use even when we want to express a surprising extreme or when we want to say that something is more than we expect. For example,
“She’s rude to everyone. She’s even rude to me.“
“He gets up early even on Sundays.“
The problem with the sentence I shared at the beginning of this post is that even is being used as a conjunction. A conjunction is a word that connects two sentences together, such as, ‘and’, ‘because’, and ‘but’. Even alone cannot be used as a conjunction. It needs to be combined with if or though to connect two clauses. So the correction would be:
“Of course I’d continue teaching even if I didn’t have to work.”
Now, do you know why we used even if and not even though here?
Even if and even though are not equivalent. So what’s the difference between them?
Even If
We use even if when we’re talking about an unreal situation. We use it when we’re speculating or when we don’t consider something as a fact.
To understand this better, let’s look at an example:
“I’m going out tomorrow even if it’s raining.”
In this situation, I don’t know if it’s going to rain tomorrow or not, but I’m still going out.
Here are some other examples,
“She’s leaving the company, even if they give her a promotion.”
“Even if we had the money, we wouldn’t live in a big house.”
Even Though
We use even though when we’re talking about a real situation. We use it to express a fact or when we think something is true.
Let’s look at how the meaning changes when we use even though instead of even if in the examples I used above:
“I’m going out right now, even though it’s raining.”
In this case, I know it’s raining and I don’t care. I’m going out anyway.
Here are some other examples,
“She’s still leaving the company, even though they offered her a promotion yesterday.”
“Even though we have the money, we don’t want to live in a big house.”
Even So
Even so follows a fact and it means however or in spite of that. So we can say,
“The weather wasn’t great. Even so, we enjoyed our trip.”
“Everyone likes him. Even so, I don’t trust him.”
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Consider the following:
She enjoys reading Shakespeare, even though it is difficult.
Even though it is difficult, she enjoys reading Shakespeare.
Reading Shakespeare is difficult, but she enjoys it.
To me, all three mean about the same. We have two statements, «she enjoys reading Shakespeare» and «reading Shakespeare is difficult», and in each case we have combined them into one sentence, with an emphasis on «She enjoys ….» By this I mean, if we take any of these as a topic sentence, I would expect to hear more about enjoyment, not difficulty.
In contrast, the following sentences emphasize «… is difficult.»:
Reading Shakespeare is difficult, even though she enjoys it.
Even though she enjoys it, reading Shakespeare is difficult.
She enjoys reading Shakespeare, but it is difficult.
To me, the following sentence belongs in the first group, not the second:
She enjoys reading Shakespeare, even if it is difficult.
In fact, I feel that it de-emphasizes (or downplays, even dismisses) the difficulty rather more than the others, while at the same time acknowledging the actual fact of the difficulty.
The «diplomatic» use of even if to me has the same function of emphasis and acknowledgement of the de-empasized fact. It may be disingenuous, but this sentence:
I forgive you, even if it was my favorite record.is about forgiveness and downplays the fact that the record was the husband’s favorite. The wife who got rid of the record in question is expected to reciprocate the forgiveness without discussing the «real» value of the record, but she cannot claim after this that he never said it was his favorite. I am tempted to call this manipulative rather than diplomatic.
I had been thinking that the word even is necessary to this meaning, which some have called «even if» with the meaning of «even though», but here is another example, without even:
Lying to protect a friend is forgivable if dishonest. [= Lying to protect a friend is forgivable, even if it is dishonest.]
(Maybe this form allows a little emphasis on the dishonesty.)
Here is a form without even or if that involves the same curious logic pattern:
He may be rich, but he doesn’t have to lord it over the rest of us. [= He doesn’t have to lord it over the rest of us, even if he is rich.]
This sentence says «may», but we know the man is rich. If my interpretation of this is correct, «may» serves to de-emphasize or dismiss the man’s wealth in relation to how he ought to treat «the rest of us.»
Затем дополните предложения 1-3 правильной фразой.
a Even though he didn’t like science, Matt got a grade A in his science exam. — Несмотря на то, что он не любил науку, Мэтт получил пять на экзамене по науке.
b I don’t think Lola will pass her history exam, even if she studies hard. — Я не думаю, что Лола сдаст экзамен по истории, даже если она будет усердно учить.
с Tim had an important exam in the morning. Even so, he went out with his friends the night before. — У Тима был важный экзамен утром. Несмотря на это, вчера вечером он ходил гулять со своими друзьями.
1. I know you can find useful information on the Internet. Even so, you’re spending too much time on the computer. — Я знаю, что вы можете найти полезную информацию в Интернете. Тем не менее, вы тратите слишком много времени на компьютер.
2. Sue started checking her emails, even though it was very late when she got home. — Сью начала проверять свои письма, хотя было очень поздно, когда она вернулась домой.
3. Even if you’re right about who stole my mobile phone, we can’t prove it, can we? — Даже если вы правы в том, кто украл мой мобильный телефон, мы не можем это доказать, не так ли?
The first one is closer to being correct than the second one. Here is the correct version, assuming I’m interpreting the meaning correctly:
Even if this approach scales for a large number of similar nodes, it is impractical for a heterogeneous system.
There were a couple errors in your first sentence:
- The first use of the word scale should be plural, since the object which is performing the action is singular. If the sentence read «these approaches[…]» rather than «this approach […]», scale would have been correct.
- You missed the letter a before «heterogenous system». You probably just accidentally left it out, but just in case you didn’t, the word a is placed before a singular noun, usually when referring to a general, arbitrary example of something.
Now, on to your actual question — «Even if» shouldn’t be separated from the rest of the clause with a comma. A comma typically implies the end of a clause. «Even if», in this case, is a qualifier for the rest of the clause («this approach scales well for a large number of similar nodes»), which means that it gives additional meaning to the clause. Because of that, it should not be separated.
This was a bit of a tricky question to answer. It’s really just one of those phrases that you have to just hear a few times and let it become natural.