English connectors

Presentation prepared by:

Juan Esteban Torres Agudelo

Environmental Engineering Student
Faculty of Engineering
 What are connectors?

Main function
words or groups of words establish relationship between
sentences in a text

Why they are important?

● help structure a written or spoken speech
● richness and fluency to writings or speeches
Copulative connectors
function: join two events
 Disjunctive connectors
function: to give one or more alternatives to the
idea proposed by the previous sentence
 Conditional connectors
function: join two ideas in such a way that
one depends on the satisfactory result or not
on the other
 Concessive connectors
function: they serve to express an objection
to the main idea of the sentence
 Conclusive connectors
function: give conclusion and / or circumstance
to the event proposed in the main sentence
 Continuous connectors
function: they serve to add an event related
to the main
 Adversative
connectors
function: they serve to oppose a difficulty
to the situation presented above
 Comparative connectors
function: they serve to express a degree of
equality or difference between two
sentences
 Functional connectors
function: they serve to express the cause
or objective of a sentence
Sequencer connectors
To give examples To generalize

To emphasize
 Positives and
To conclusion
negatives
 To declare certainties

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