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Understanding Transition Signals

This document discusses transition signals, which are words or phrases that help connect ideas between sentences and parts of a sentence. There are two types of transition signals: clause connectors and sentence connectors. Clause connectors connect ideas within a sentence, while sentence connectors connect ideas between sentences. Some examples of common transition signals that are provided include 'and', 'also', 'moreover', and 'first' to show sequencing, as well as 'but', 'however', and 'on the other hand' to show opposition or contrast. The document also gives examples of transition signals that can indicate cause and effect, comparison, and restatement or explanation.

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Understanding Transition Signals

This document discusses transition signals, which are words or phrases that help connect ideas between sentences and parts of a sentence. There are two types of transition signals: clause connectors and sentence connectors. Clause connectors connect ideas within a sentence, while sentence connectors connect ideas between sentences. Some examples of common transition signals that are provided include 'and', 'also', 'moreover', and 'first' to show sequencing, as well as 'but', 'however', and 'on the other hand' to show opposition or contrast. The document also gives examples of transition signals that can indicate cause and effect, comparison, and restatement or explanation.

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Why use transition signals? They help show the connection between your ideas They help reader or listener follow the flow of your ideas They help the reader or listener move from one idea to the next Common transition signals There are two types of transition signals: Clause connectors (CC): show how ideas in one part of a sentence relate to ideas in another part of the same sentence Sentence connectors (SC): show the relationship between ideas from one sentence to the next
CC: and SC: also, too, moreover, in addition, furthermore, another, an additional

Sequence or logical division


CC: before, after, as soon as, while, until SC: first (second, third, etc), firstly (secondly, thirdly, etc), first of all, next, meanwhile, since then, last, finally, above all, more important(ly), most important(ly)

Opposition or contrast
CC: but, yet, although, though, even though, whereas, while, despite, in spite of, SC: however, in contrast, on the other hand, on the contrary, instead, nevertheless, nonetheless

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Examples of these connectors are Addition

Comparison or similarity
CC: as, just as SC: just like, in like manner, equally, likewise, too, also, similarly, in a similar fashion, in the same way

Cause and effect Example


CC: such as, including, e.g. SC: for example, for instance, as an illustration, to illustrate, to be specific CC: because, since, as, because of, as a consequence of, as a result of, due to, so SC: accordingly, as a result, as a consequence, hence, thus, therefore, consequently, the effect of

Condition
CC: if, in case, provided that, as long as, in the event that, on condition that, providing, supposing

Restatement or explanation
CC: that is, i.e. SC: indeed, in other words

Summary or conclusion
SC: in conclusion, to conclude, in summary, to summarise, on the whole, to sum up, in brief, ultimately

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ODriscoll (1988) Penguin Basic English Grammar pp 102-108 (LL&RS Resource Area BB200) [Link]/onlib/[Link] [Link]/capi/resources/ docs/chart_transition_signals.htm [Link]/PWR/writingtips/[Link]

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