Short presentation about useful connectors and another kind of linking words that can be used for writing an essay

1. Linking words

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