Connectives Are Used for Different Purposes

Connectives are used for different purposes…

Time Connectives Show the order of your points:

• First• Then• After• Begin• Next• Finally• Before

After school, I play football.

Opposing Connectives

Introduce an opposite argument:

• However• Although• Alternatively• Anyway• Yet• Whereas

Although I don’t like vegetables, I still eat them.

Adding Connectives

Adds a further point:

• Also• And• Too• Indeed• Similarly• Likewise• Furthermore

I like chocolate, and I like sweets.

Result Connectives

Introduce a result:• Therefore• Because• Since• So• Then• As• For

I am sad because England lost to France.

Pauses and Clauses

1: Add a comma BEFORE adding FANBOYSKyle refused to eat the salad served with the meal, nor would he touch any green vegetable put on his plate.

2: Add a comma if the subordinate clause is at the beginning of the sentence.After Kyle refused the salad served with the meal, he then would not touch the green vegetables put on his plate.3: Don’t add a comma if the dependent clause is at the end of the sentence.

4: Add a comma when connecting 2 main clausesWhile I am at work, my dog sleeps on the bed, and my cat naps on the sofa.

Using Connectives to enhance our writing.

Re-write the ‘All about Me’ paragraph using:

TIME connectivesOPPOSING connectivesADDING connectivesRESULT connectives