SOME DISCOURSE MARKERS OR CONNECTORS

BY: Francisco Luis Herrera C.

 Connectors are words, groups or words or expressions that connect sentences or ideas by giving them some logic; this logic depends also on how you structure what you want to express. There are some types of connectors depending on the goal you use them for:

When starting a text.

At first sight , First of all, In the first place, To start with, First off, If you have an order: first, second, third finally.
You can also use: firstly, secondly, thirdly, lastly. But you have to be coherent.

When finishing the text:

Finally, In conclusion, Lastly, In summary, As a conclusion,

When adding more info.

And, In addition (to+noun) On the one hand, on the other hand, Besides, Furthermore, Moreover,

When establishing contrast

However, nevertheless, nonetheless. But Instead of. On the contrary, conversely. Though, even though, although. Whereas, while.

To give explanations or reasons

because, because of. Since, Due to. For this, for that reason

To give results
As a result, Consequently, Therefore, As a consequence,

To express something in other words

In other words, In short, That is (to say)

To express facts
Actually, In fact, As a matter of fact, Really,

To express a personal opinion

As far as Im concerned, From my point of view, I agree-I disagree In my opinion, In my view, I think (that) It is true that, To be honest, To tell the truth,

To modify what youre saying

Above all At least Basically, Especially Essentially In general In particular More or less On the whole To a certain extent

To give examples
, and so on- ,and so on and so forth. For example For instance Such as

In order to summarize what youve said.

All in all, In brief, In conclusion, In short, On the whole, To sum up,

To show sequence
After that, Finally, In the end, Next, Suddenly, Then, All of sudden, First of all, In the meantime,/during the meantime, While, Meanwhile,
Adapted from: http://mbonillo.xavierre.com/gramatica/ markers.html

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