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Finally: part 4 of Sentence Connectors. Let’s remember what linking adverbs and transition words are. They connect two independent clauses or sentences. They provide transition between ideas. They can also be called conjunctive adverbs. They can be used at the beginning of a sentence or mid-sentence with punctuation. Addition Alternative Cause-Effect Comparison Condition Contrast Emphasis [...]
Hello again! Ready for part 3: Subordinating Conjuctions? If you want to check out past posts: – Introduction to Sentence Connectors – Coordinating Conjunctions – Correlating Conjunctions Subordinating Conjunctions connect a dependent clause and an independent clause and establish a relationship between them. They happen at the beginning of a sentences (with a comma in [...]
We have already looked at Coordinating Conjunctions. Now we’ll continue with Correlative Conjunctions. These conjunctions connect equal sentence elements together (like two nouns) and are always composed by two words. Addition Alternative Cause-Effect Comparison Condition Contrast Both…And Either…Or So..That As…As Whether…Or not Neither…Nor Not only…Also Neither…Nor Such…That More…Than Not only…But also Rather than Less…Than And…Too [...]
Remember our Introduction to Connectors? Let’s look deeper into the first category: Coordinating Conjunctions. These conjunctions connect words, phrases and clauses. They are usually found in the middle of a sentence with a comma (,) just before the conjuction, or at the beginning of the sentence. Addition Alternative Cause-Effect Condition Contrast And or so or [...]
Sentence Connectors are a great way of improving your English. Why? Because we use them to express relationships between ideas and to combine sentences. When we begin learning a language, we speak in very basic sentences, a bit like children. Example: “London is a very exciting city. London is very expensive.” As we learn more [...]