or joining words. Some common connectives include ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’ and ‘then’. Using these can make your writing flow. Examples: He was seventeen years old. He lived in Edinburgh.

At the level of discourse, for example, a writer communicates the relative ... Second, there is the problem of being familiar with the lexical items (words) themselves that constitute connectives. And ...

You can join sentences, clauses and phrases together using connectives, or joining words. Some common connectives ... as a single unit of meaning – for example ‘their pet Siamese cat ...