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Linking Words
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Linking Words
"Linking words or connecting words" is used as a term to denote a class of English words, which are employed to link, join or connect two or more sentences or clauses (a clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb).
Linking words can be used to add ideas together, contrast them, or show the reason for something. In addition, they are divided into two categories:
Conjunctions and Transition Words
Transition Words
Conjunctions
English transition words are essential, since they not only connect ideas, but also can introduce a certain shift, contrast or opposition, emphasis or agreement, purpose, result or conclusion, etc. in the line of argument.
The transition words and phrases have been assigned to different categories, such as:
Joining words that link two parts of a sentence are called conjunctions. Also, there are three basic types of conjunctions:
- Coordinating conjunctions
(For, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so)
- Subordinating conjunctions
(After, as, although, before, because, where, while, etc.)
- Correlative conjunctions
(Not only...but also, neither...nor, either....or, as...as, etc.)
- Cause
- Effect
- Conclusion
- Purpose
- Summary
- Addition
- Agreement
- Time
- Place
- Exemplification
- Contrast
List of Transition words per category
http://www.sass.uottawa.ca/writing/kit/grammar-transitional.pdf
https://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/lrc/handouts/Revised_Transitional%20Words%20worksheet%2004%203%202007.pdf
Activity
Conjunctions
Practice
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/conj01.html
Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
BIN-30 Taller de Mult. y Mat. Didácticos
José Pablo Corrales Paniagua