Here are some examples of conjunctions at the start of sentences: What are children taught about conjunctions at primary school? In Year 1, children are taught to use the conjunction 'and' to join sentences. Often children of this age will write a series of simple sentences and teachers show...
What are connectives in discrete mathematics? Prove by induction that \sum_{i=n}^{2n} i^2 = \frac{n (n + 1) (14 n + 1)}{6} for every n ∈ N. Prove by mathematical induction that x^{2n} - y^{2n} has a factor of x + y. ...
Time connectives, such as: first, then, next, later, finally. Technical vocabulary (sometimes in bold), for example: if the text is about how a car is made, it may include words such as 'ignition', 'engine' and 'bonnet' Glossary to explain technical vocabulary Diagrams with labels Pictur...
It depends on the purpose of the text what kind of conjunctions are suitable. In books about textlinguistics, we find various structures, even different expressions for conjunctions. While Salkie distinguishes four types of connectives9 (addition, opposition, cause and time connectives), we find 5...
Arnold 1999; Kaiser 2011), and the results are rather inconsistent, particularly regarding the effect of focus. Thus, it remains unclear how they interact and which referent is preferred by an upcoming pronoun. One way to address this issue is to investigate the prosodic form of the pronoun. ...
One is those represented by Schiffrin, Redeker, and Fraser, etc., who presume discourse markers, although their memberships are not totally the same, do contribute to discourse coherence. The other group represented by Blakemore, Wilson and Sperber, etc., who denominate DMs discourse connectives (...
(2)针对课文内容,我会提问学生:“Whatdoestheauthorthinkaboutlifechoices?Canyougivesomeexamplesfromthetext?”通过这个问题,让学生进一步理解课文,并学会运用课文中的词汇和句型来回答问题。 (3)组织学生进行小组讨论,分享各自对生活选择的理解和看法,鼓励他们用英语进行表达。
Connectives such as because, since and so are good examples of these means; they express causality, specifically, they signal that a causal relation can be established between two discourse segments. Another important notion expressed in discourse is subjectivity. This is a cognitive principle that ...
These lexical expres- sions have been studied under various labels, including discourse markers, discourse connec- tives, discourse operators, pragmatic connectives, sentence connectives, and cue phrases. Although most researchers agree that they are expressions which relate discourse segments, there is ...
Sentence level work can be done as a stand-alone activity, for example: teachers may give children worksheets on connectives, punctuation or powerful verbs. It is also often taught as part of the main literacy teaching of a text; when modelling or editing a piece of writing, a teacher will...