Connecting Sequencing and Ideas

Connecting and Sequencing Ideas

Empowering your speech

Connectors and sequence makers

Words or phrases which show the relationship between ideas. We put these words or phrases at or near the beginning of a sentence or clause.They connect the following information with the earlier information.

Ex.:

First I'd like to explain the main concepts. After that we'll apply them.

We invested a lot of resources in researching the market. Therefore , our entry is likely to be successful.

Uses:

(1) Time

(2) Logic (cause, contrast, condition, comparison and concession)

(3)Text (addition, summary, paraphrase, example and highlight)

_{Use the following words to fill in the table according the ideas these terms connect.}