LINKING WORDS

LINKING WORDS

1. The connectors in English are used to join sentences so that they make sense.

   • They will allow us to express ourselves more fluently and give a precise order to the ideas that we want to express.

2. They are used to express a relationship of coherence between two coordinated phrases or a main and a subordinate phrase.

   • Without them it would be impossible to make sense of many of the ideas that we try to express in words.

3. Types of connectors in English

   • English adversary connectors
     • sirven para oponer una dificultad a la situación presentada anteriormente
   • English causal connectors
     • are used to give a reason to a fact
   • Comparative connectors in English
     • they serve to express a degree of equality or difference between two sentences
   • Concessive connectors in English
     • they serve to express an objection to the main idea of ​​the sentence
   • Conclusive connectors in English
     • they are used to give conclusion and / or circumstance to the event proposed in the main sentence
   • Conditional connectors in English
     • they serve to express a condition.
     • They are used to unite two ideas in such a way that one depends on the satisfactory result or not of the other
     • They can express specific cases or more general truths.
     • Conditional connectors are used, above all, in the four English conditionals.
     • Continuous connectors in English
       • they are used to add an event related to the main one.
       • they serve to give continuity to the main phrase, that is, to fill the temporal gap after an event explained above.
   • Copulative connectors in English
     • they have the function of joining two events.
     • In addition to adding ideas to those already mentioned in the previous sentence, the copulative connectors can also serve to contrast them, as well as balance them at the level of importance.
   • Disjunctive connectors in English
     • they serve to give one or more alternatives to the idea proposed by the previous sentence
   • Functional connectors in English
     • they serve to express the cause or objective of a sentence.
     • The main sentence expresses a situation normally carried out so that the second sentence was possible.
   • English sequential connectors
     • they are used to narrate the events in a certain chronological order following, as the name implies, a sequence of events.

4. linking words examples

   • “I hate my cat but I love my dog”
     • “I hate my cat” + but + “I love my dog”
   • “ The dinner was burned because she had forgotten it”
     • “The dinner was burned” + because + “ she had forgotten it”
   • “ We all went to home before a fight broke out”
   • Where (donde)
   • Though (aunque, sin embargo)
   • However (sin embargo)

5. “Remember that restaurant where you ate a huge steak”

6. “He could play the violin though he was only five years old”

7. “ I would invite you to come in although the place is a mess”

8. Before (antes)

   • After (después)
     • Until (hasta)
       • Since (desde)
         • When (cuando)
           • Whenever (cuando sea)
             • While (mientras)

9. Where (donde)