Transition Word Categories

Front

What does the passage have to look like for "Subverting expectation" transition words to be correct?

Back

The sentence after the blank subverts the expectations from the previous sentence.

Front

What does the passage have to look like for "Cause and effect" transition words to be correct?

Back

You can say "because of the sentence before the blank the sentence after the blank can happen."

Front

What does the passage have to look like for "Zooming in" transition words to be correct?

Back

The sentence after the blank zooms in on something from the sentence before the blank.

Front

What does the passage have to look like for "Swapping" transition words to be correct?

Back

There's a topic sentence and two sentences afterwards that support the topic sentence. The transition word is in between the 2 supporting sentences. You should be able to swap the ideas between the sentences before and after the blank, and it'll still make sense.

For example: "Cats are secretly plotting to take over the world. They already have humans trained to open cans of food on command. ____, they’ve convinced us that knocking things off tables is cute.

Front

What does the passage have to look like for "Parallelism" transition words to be correct?

Back

The structure of the sentences of the sentences before and after are the same.

For example: "This guy, did this thing, which led to this accomplishment. _____ this other guy, did this other thing, which led to this other accomplishment"

Front

What does the passage have to look like for "Confirmation" transition words to be correct?

Back

The sentence after the blank confirms what was said in the sentence before the blank.

Front

What does the passage have to look like for "Concession" transition words to be correct?

Back

The sentence after the blank acknowledges what was said in the sentence before, but also introduces something that conflicts with the sentence before. This is halfway between the "subverting expectation" and "confirmation" categories.

Front

What does the passage have to look like for "Restatement" transition words to be correct?

Back

The sentence after the blank doesn't add any new information and only restates what was said before.

Front

What does the passage have to look like for "Sequence" transition words to be correct?

Back

There has to be something in the passage that indicates the events of the sentence before and after the blank happen in a specific order.

For example: Maybe in the passage there's the word "First," signaling the passage is a sequence of events, so the answer is "Next."