8.145 contrast

When you are adding a contrasting fact, you usually use 'but'.

• I'm only 63, but I feel a hundred.
• It costs quite a lot but it's worth it.
• I've had a very pleasant two years, but I can't wait to get back to the City.
• Yes, we will be using motor racing to promote our products, but we will also be using it to promote good, safe and sober driving.

If you want to add a fact which contrasts strongly with what you have just said, you use 'yet' or 'and yet'.

• Everything around him was blown to pieces, yet the minister escaped without a scratch.
• I want to leave, and yet I feel obliged to stay.

You usually put a comma in front of 'but', 'yet', or 'and yet'.