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Connectors or Link Words and their Discourse Functions

1. Connectors that order the text (enumeration): In the first place.....(en primera instancia..)

then.......... (entonces..)

last of all....(por último..) Firstly.......(Primero..) lugar..)

secondly......(en segundo

lastly....(por último..) To begin with........(Para empezar..)

finally....(finalmente..)

the former......(el primero..)

the latter....(el último..)

(referring to two things just mentioned) 2. To emphasize a point (reformulation): That is to say.......(Es decir..)

In other words.....(En otras palabras..)

As I have just pointed out...(Como se acaba de señalar..)I

would

like

to

stress the fact that....(Me gustaría emfatizar el hecho de que..) The main point is......(Lo más importante es..)

That is....(Eso es..)

In particular….(En particular..) 3. To introduce or refer to a particular subject: As for.... (En cuanto a..)

As regards/Regarding....(Cuanto a..)

With regard to.....(En cuanto a..)

Concerning....(En

lo

que

concierne a..) 4. To give examples (exemplification): For example.......(Por ejemplo..)

For instance....(Por ejemplo...)

such as... (tal como..) namely… 5. To establish distinctions: On the one hand........(Por un lado..) On the other hand....(Y por otro..) 6. Adverbial comments: Naturally...(Naturalmente..) Obviously...(Evidentemente..)

Certainly...

(Ciertamente..) Surely...(Seguramente..) Really....(En realidad..) 7. To amplify a previous subject (addition): Moreover...(Además..) What is more.... (También..)

Furthermore....

Also....

Besides.... ...(Además..) I mean....(Quiero decir..)

In addition.... indeed ... In fact... Again... 8. Condition/Consequence: As a result....(Como resultado..)

Consequently...(Consecuentemente..)

Therefore...(Por lo tanto..)

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Thus....(Por tanto..)

So...(Así que..)

As

long

as…..(Mientras..) If…..(Si..)

Provided that…(Mientras..)

Unless...(Si no...)

9. Concession/contrast: Nevertheless....(Sin embargo..)

After all...(Después de todo..) .

In any case......(De todas formas..)

However....(Sin embargo..)

At the same time....(Al mismo tiempo..) Alternatively……(Alternativamente..) By comparison….(En comparación..)

Although...(Aunque..)

Similarly……(De la misma manera..).

Yet…..(Pero..)

On the contrary...(De lo contrario..) 10. Corroboration/reformulation: In fact...(De hecho..)

Of course...(Por supuesto..)

Actually...(De hecho..)

In other words...(En otras palabras..)

11. Continuation: Anyway....(De todas formas..)

So……(Así que..)

12. Contradiction: On the contrary.....(Por el contrario..) In actual fact.......(De hecho..) Quite the opposite....(Totalmente lo contrario..) 13. Hypothesis: Suppose/Supposing....(Supongamos..) 14. Digression: By the way....(A propósito..)

Incidentally...(A propósito..)

15. Inference: So....(Así pues..)

Then......(Por tanto..)

otras palabras..) In that case....(En ese caso..)

In

other

words......(En

In

short….(En

pocas

palabras..) 16. Modification (we sometimes hesitate to give a precise figure or opinion due to lack of data, or we just don’t know exactly): Broadly speaking....(En términos generales..)

More or less....(Más o

menos..) On the whole....(En general..) 17. Cause/effect: As a result…..(Como resultado..)

Consequently…….

(Consecuentemente..) That is why…(Por eso..) Therefore….(Por lo tanto..)

For this/that reason… (Por eso..) Thus…(Así

que..) 2

18. Changing subject/referring to subject: As far as …. is concerned;(En cuanto a...) Regarding…… to…

To turn to….(Refiriéndonos a..)

As

With

for…/As reference

to…..(Con referencia a ..) 19. Summing up/summarizing: All in all......(Después de todo..)

To sum up.....(Resumiendo..)

In

short....(En pocas palabras..) Briefly...(Brevemente..) Summing up....(En resumen..) Summarizing....(Resumiendo..) All in all…. (Al fin y al cabo..) For more information concerning connectors and their discourse functions, see: Ball, W.J. (1986) Dictionary of Link Words. London: Macmillan. . Go to the following web pages and practice a little more. If you’re not sure of the grammar, look it up! 1. http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/89.html 2. This page has a lot of resources: http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/freeexercises.htm CONNECTORS IN THIS PART http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.connect.i.htm 3. Go down the page to Level 4 Medium – DO: 1. CONJUNCTIONS – LEVEL 1 2. CONNECTIVES http://a4esl.org/a/g3.html And also level 6 - Connectors http://a4esl.org/q/f/y/zz99maa.htm 4. CONJUNCTIONS Any or all from 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6 http://www.english-4u.de/grammar_exercises.htm

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