Thursday, February 4, 2016

Connectors!


Hi there!

Whether we are speaking or writing in English, the ideas that we express and the information we include cannot be disjointed and disorganized; if we do so, the message we want to get across is quite likely to not be understood at all... Our interlocutor could easily pull this face and we should not take offence:



Enter our beloved linkers, connectors, discourse markers, conjunctions and whatnot: these help organize the information in our speech and texts and make them coherent and cohesive; what happens before or after what, conveying meanings of addition, contrast, cause and effect, giving examples, addressing different aspects within a topic, summarizing, etc.

Find below a link to a document containing some of the linkers which should be used at this level.
And make sure you use them when appropriate!


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