Sentence Connectors
| She drinks coffee. He drinks tea.
She drinks coffee, but he drinks tea. She drinks coffee, and he drinks tea. She drinks coffee; he drinks tea. Although she drinks coffee, he drinks tea. She drinks coffee although he drinks tea. Although she drinks coffee, but he drinks tea. She drinks coffee; however, he drinks tea. She drinks coffee. However, he drinks tea. She drinks coffee. He, however, drinks tea. |
(Two separate sentences)
(Coordination) (Both ideas are equal) (Closely related ideas) (Subordination) (One idea is stronger) (INCORRECT!) (Sentence connector) (Stronger break between ideas) (Variation) |
Remember:
A period (.) provides the strongest break between ideas.
A semicolon (;) is next, and a comma (,) provides the weakest separation.
Coordinators provide connection between equal ideas.
(and, but, or, nor, so, for, yet)
Examples:
Subordinators provide connection between unequal ideas.
(because, although, when, while, if, as, since, whenever, wherever)
Example:
He didn’t go to work because he was sick.
Although John was unhappy, he still smiled.
Sentence Connectors provide connection between large groups of ideas/sentences. (usually paragraphs)
(therefore, otherwise, thus, in conclusion, furthermore)
For Practice: See
Connecting Words (from The Internet TESL Journal)
See also:
Grammar: Conjunctions and Linking Words
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