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Can sentences be seperated nothwithstanding the use of 'whereas'?
Can sentences be seperated nothwithstanding the use of 'whereas'?
Whereas
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I would say, either use "whereas" in one sentence with two independent clauses or have two and change "whereas" to "at the same time", "however, etc.
No you should not substitute notwithstanding for whereas.
whereas = while on the contrary
notwithstanding = in spite of
His question is lightly different, as far as I understand. He is asking whether it is OK to use "whereas" at the beginning of an independent second sentence or to make it a conjunction between the two clauses of one sentence. I would opt for the latter.