Cohesive devices: the set of linguistic devices
which make a text hold together:
1. Reference:
‘Tmet a boy named John. He was nice.
2. Ellipsis: -
Grammatical Pele saw a movie and fd] had a meal
cohesion . Substitution:
‘Do you want an icecream. Yes, | want one
4. Comparison:
Give me another biscuit.
5. Conjunction:
Lexical He cheated on me, sa I left him
" 6. Lexical cohesion
soneson | The portrait is on display and deoicts the
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4. Types of Conjunctions
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Elaboration Apposition,
empiteion, ‘and defining/non-defining
clarification relative clauses, i.e. for
‘example, infact...
Fg. Diana's daughter was very sick. n fact, she needed a blood transfusion.
‘met the man that you saw yesterday.
4. Types of Conjunctions 4. Types of Conjunctions
a
Enhancement ‘Time, place, ‘When, where, because,
comparison, cause,+ thus, ikewis, similarly,
Ez
Extension Addition, variation or Aso, and, bu, or, whose
alternation relathe causes) ‘where/when in reiztve so, Detining reitive
Discourse markers ‘when’, and “wh-
(wel, ofcourse.) prepositional phrases
ye could give blee tomorrow Or aye theater woul be beter
‘The daughter fy bes Wen, whose name lean tremerbey coming wth us too.
ten gave lod. Others her daughter wouéethve recovered.