Commentary: Advance signposting with ‘Although’ Advance signposting with ‘Although’: clearly, in the 2nd of these, the writer signals the concessive relationship between the 2 propositions in advance, and thereby manages to place the main clause, the key ‘new’ information, in ‘end-focus’ position - on the basis that sentences tend to culminate in new or more significant information. Let us extend the ‘wave’ model to show how the subordinate clause has initial ‘given’ status, while the main clause has ‘new’ high informativity status: