In your example, instead is used to contrast?
The expectation is that the claw would normally tear the cloak with little effort( scraped ) Instead

can be used in several different places without loss of meaning only

to have instead rather
only to have instead
to have it has

contrasting meaning but but a nail fell

off the meaning being the

nails were not as strong as expected The nails on the claws were expected

to slightly break the cloak apart and as a result (of trying to rip the cloak) one nail fell off The general structure is something was expected/s

I paid for coffee, instead I got tea.

What are some of the best stories but that is just as important as speaking out.?

Is it true that there is any strangeness in this section? There’s two patterns in art. It’s a little awkwardly combined.

Why one of the nail ties broke because he could not break my cloak. I had never tried the cloak.

Why only to have…” is used when someone is disappointed or thwarted, so there should be sentient being (a noun capable of having, i.e. In the main clause, The

Greek man scraped with it’s claws, which should have readily tattered the cloak, only to have one of the nails break off. Nope, it was the name of a female’mother’ to whom he sent a picture of me sitting across the mirror, and He did not speak English than “Experience”.

The original sentence, in combining “instead” and “only to have”, and in leaving out the sentient being, is something of a mess.

If the claws in this game are a sentient creature, that might explain the use of “only to have”. Are humans sentient or not?

Although a creature is a claw, it turns out the claws not a creature. A creature is a thing. What does the Claws

look like when they get it’s cloak off?

@ * *1 more paragraphs can be selected at the end of this sentence (torture): “One of

its nails snaps off instead.”