2. Imagine that you’re building a road and, in a
certain point, you can’t cross a river (for
instance). In that case you would have to
build a bridge that can allow you to make a
connection between both sides of the road.
That’s what you will do when writing an
essay: you will need to make use of some
words that allow some words to be linked to
another. That’s what a linking word is, in a
manner of speaking.
What’s a linking word?
3. LIST OF SENTENCE CONNNECTORS
LOGICAL/SEQUENTI
AL ORDER
ORDER OF
IMPORTANCE
CONTRAST RESULT COMPARISON REASON
Firstly, secondly,
thirdly, among other
Most / more
importantly
However As a result Similarily The cause of
Next, last, finally Most
significantly
On the other
hand
As a
consequence
Likewise The reason
for
In addition Above all On the
contrary
Therefore Also
Furthermore Primarily By (in)
comparison
Thus
Also It is essential /
essentially
In contrast Consequently
At present / presently Hence
4. Sentence connectors are used to link ideas
from one sentence to the next and to give
paragraphs coherence. Sentence connectors
perform different functions and are placed at
the beginning of a sentence. They are used to
introduce, order, contrast, sequence ideas,
theory, data etc.
What’s a sentence
connector?
5. Subordinators are linking words that are used to join
clauses together. They are used at the beginning or
in the middle of a sentence. A clause is a group of
words that must contain a subject and predicate.
There are two types of clauses:
independent clauses - these can stand alone as a
sentence by themselves
dependent clauses - these make no sense by
themselves.
What are subordinators?
6. Even though the train was late (dependent clause), I got to the exam
on time (independent clause)
I got to the exam on time (independent clause), even though the train
was late (dependent clause)
EXAMPLES OF
SUBORDINATORS
7. COMMON SUBORDINATORS
COMPARISON AND
CONTRAST
CAUSE/EFFECT TIME POSSIBILITY PLACE AND MANNER
Although Since After if Wherever
Though So that When as if Where
Even though Because Until whether How
While Whenever unless
Whereas Before
8. Although some of these words have already
been mentioned as sentence connectors, they
can also be used to develop coherence within
a paragraph, that is linking one idea/
argument to another.
Linking words and phrases
9. Sequence Result Emphasis Addition Reason Example Contrast Comparison
First / firstly,
second /
secondly,
third /
thirdly,
among
other
So Undoubtedly And For For
example
However Similarly
Next, last,
finally
As a result Indeed In addition /
additionally /
an additional
Because For
instance
Nevertheless Likewise
In addition,
moreover
As a
consequence
(of)
Obviously Furthermore Since That is (ie) Nonetheless Also
Further /
furthermore
Therefore Generally Also As Such as Still Like
Another Thus Admittedly Too Because
of
Including Although /
even though
Just as
Also Consequently In fact As well as Namely Though Just like
In
conclusion
Hence Particularly /
in particular
But Similar to
10. COMMON LINKING WORDS AND PHRASES (CONTINUED)
To
summarise
Due to Especially Yet Same as
Clearly Despite / in
spite of
Compare
compare(d) to /
with
Importantly In contrast (to)
/ in
comparison
Not only...but also
While
Whereas
On the other
hand
On the
contrary