Connectives
Junior History
Skills
Year 10
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HOW DO I ... link sentences and paragraphs? |
CONNECTIVES
Topics for paragraphs, reports and essays may develop in different ways according to your content and needs.
A list of linking words, or connectives, is provided to help you link your ideas, sentences and paragraphs. Connective words are used either in or between paragraphs to help to show the connection or relationship between one sentence and another. Used carefully, they can assist the reader in moving from one point to the next.
Connectives may be used to:
- make comparisons or contrasts
- add to an idea
- express a result
- summarise
- explain or illustrate
- arrange ideas in order, time or space.
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EXPLAINING IDEAS |
namely such as as already stated |
for example in other words |
that is for instance |
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PUTTING IDEAS IN ORDER |
firstly meanwhile initially further |
secondly next afterwards lastly |
then finally later most importantly |
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ADDING
TO |
in addition also likewise in a similar way |
moreover too similarly |
furthermore besides in like manner |
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST |
nevertheless yet by contrast all the same after all
conversely |
however still rather notwithstanding for all that despite this |
but on the other hand on the contrary nonetheless at the same time though |
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CAUSE
AND |
because consequently |
in order that for thus |
so that for that reason as a result |
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CONCLUSION |
therefore hence all in all all
this evidence points to |
so in conclusion finally consequently to sum up |
as a result thus all this suggests that this resulted in all this leads to |
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