1. Read the text and identify the ways that it is joined together (or made cohesive).

Find examples of the following:

1-LEXICAL COHESION

 Direct repetition bad breath (lines 1,2,5,7)

You-you, Smell-smell, someone-someone, tell-tell, know-know, VSCs-VSCs

 Synonyms

get rid of- eliminates, sure-guarantee, end-last,

 Antonyms

Fresh breath-bad breath, nobody-someone, fresh-odour, question-answer,

 Words from the same semantic field, lists

mouthwashes, toothpastes, sprays and oral products

2-GRAMATICAL COHESION

 Reference: pronouns

Someone-----them

Exophoric Reference because the writer is talking about someone outside the text.

RetarDEXO products--------they
Anaphoric Reference because the antecedent is mentioned previously.
Someone------they
Exophoric Reference since the writer is mentioned someone outside the text.

 Reference: articles

 Ellipsis of clause elements

 Conjuncts (also called linkers)

So, because, but

 Tense

Present simple, Passive voice (Present simple), Future and going to.

3- RHETORICAL COHESION

 Question-answer
 BAD BREATH: Why you’re always the last to know?
A simple question: when someone you know or work with has bad breath,
do you tell them?
If you’re like most people, the answer is probably ‘’No’’. Which means
that nobody is going to tell you when you have bad breath.
So to be sure, you don’t use, RetarDEXO products.
They’re guaranteed to ban bad breath, because they actually get rid
of something dentists call Volatile Sulphur Compounds, or VSCs.
These are the end products of bacteria feeding off dead cell tissue and
debris in the mouth that, hardly surprising, smell terrible.
Ordinary mouthwashes, toothpastes and sprays only mask the odour with
a nicer smell which soon wears off. But the clinically proven RetarDEX range
of 24-hours oral care products has a patented active ingredient called
CloSYS IIO which eliminates these VCSs and rapidly restores fresh breath.

So don’t wait for someone to tell you. Because they won’t.