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Discover Ludwig"but instead you" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to contrast two possible courses of action or ideas. For example, "I thought you were going to help me with this project, but instead you spent the day playing video games."
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But instead you get all the bonehead mistakes of the amateur.
You could have given up on it but instead you battled on and passed.
But instead you rewarded me by sending me to a better place, heaven.
It sets the bar too high: you expect Cowboys versus 49ers circa 1992, but instead you get welterweight-caliber matchups.
You want to cry when you talk to them, but instead you have to talk them off the ledge".
"But instead, you know, we had Reconstruction, we had the re-instigation of segregation and Jim Crow.
But instead you always let me think that, while you respected me, despite all my efforts you couldn't love me.
So will Spiderman!' But instead you go, 'OK, I hear the game,' and you're on your own.
You want to scream sonnets and name children, but instead you channel those feelings into effusiveness about pizza.
But instead you say I shoot at you all the time?" Kearney swung his legs back and forth.
But instead, you choose to write about lesbian vampires and Colombian assassins and Hiroshima orphans — and New York painters with hemorrhoids".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com