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COHESIVE DEVICES-Advanced

This document lists and defines various cohesive devices used to connect ideas in writing. It categorizes them based on their function, such as contrast, addition, result, purpose, sequence, emphasis, cause-effect, generalization, highlighting, and repetition/restatement.

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COHESIVE DEVICES-Advanced

This document lists and defines various cohesive devices used to connect ideas in writing. It categorizes them based on their function, such as contrast, addition, result, purpose, sequence, emphasis, cause-effect, generalization, highlighting, and repetition/restatement.

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COHESIVE DEVICES

Contrast: Addition: Result: To give reason:


Although Both… and Therefore Because
Though Not only… but As a result of this As
Even though In addition As a result Since
Much as Furthermore So For
Notwithstanding What’s more This Due to (the fact that)
No matter + question word On top of that Hence Because of
However Moreover Thus Owing to
Nonetheless, Nevertheless As well as Consequently On account of
Yet Besides As a consequence of (this)
Even so Aside from Because of this
Still as well Accordingly
Instead By doing so,
On the other hand
Contrarily
While
Whereas
As opposed to
Contrary to
Despite
In spite of

Summarise or Conclude: Giving examples: Comparison: Purpose:


Therefore For example Similarly So that
Thus For instance Equally In order that
Summing up Such as In the same way For the purpose that/of
Hence As follows Compared with In order to
As stated Namely Balanced against So as to
On the whole One of those... Equally important
For these reasons
To show sequence: Emphasising: (link with adverbs of Cause-Effect: Generalising:
To begin with opinion) …leads to… Generally
Subsequently Definitely …results in… In most cases
Firstly Obviously …is the result of… Most of the time
Second Indeed …is due to… On the whole
Following this Absolutely …result from… In general
Afterward Naturally
Extremely
In any case
Surprisingly
Positively
Without a doubt
Unquestionably
Undoubtedly
Undeniably
Certainly
Evidently

Highlighting: To repeat/restate:
Particularly As has been noted /As I have noted
Mainly Having said this
Especially The previously stated
Above all That is to say
That is why

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