connective

Examples

• All

• Some students will benefit from sentence combining as a stepping stone to using connectives in their own writing.

  Academic text (2013)

• We then discuss why understanding the meaning of connectives plays such an important role in comprehension.

  Academic text (2013)

• Support their understanding of both common and academic connectives through sentence combining activities. # 5.

  Academic text (2013)

• How might instruction about connectives support students in meeting these expectations?

  Academic text (2013)

• How frequent and important are connectives in typical reading materials?

  Academic text (2013)

• In this article, we address how and why to provide instruction about connectives to students in the middle grades.

  Academic text (2013)

• Without knowledge of what relationships are being cued by connectives, comprehension will suffer.

  Academic text (2013)

• We begin this article by demonstrating that connectives constitute an important domain of vocabulary in school-based reading materials.

  Academic text (2013)

• Teachers often emphasize the importance of connectives in writing to improve clarity.

• Understanding connectives is essential for following the flow of complex sentences.

Synonyms

C

connector

vsconnective

5 3.6

A word that links ideas or parts of a sentence

is limited to linking by words rather than physical or technical connectors

C

conjunction

vsconnective

• Specialized

4 1.0

A word that joins words or parts of a sentence, for example and

is broader, covering other linking function words too

C

conjunct

vsconnective

• Specialized

6.8

A word like and that connects two parts of a sentence

is the general term that also covers other linker words

C

continuative

vsconnective

• Specialized

8.8

A small word like and or but that joins words, phrases, and sentences

is broader and includes inflected or other linking function words

Compounds

C

connective tissue

• Specialized

4 4.3

Tissue that supports and joins parts of the body like tendons and ligaments

C

connective tissue

1 4.3

A thing that links and holds different parts of a group or system together

How Strong

subordinating conjunction

• Specialized

5.4

connective

• Specialized

3.6

coordinating conjunction

• Specialized

1.0

Surface Forms

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Etymology