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continuative

continuative

8.8
A small word like and or but that joins words, phrases, and sentences
  • noun
  • /kənˈtɪn.juˌeɪ.tɪv/
  • Specialized
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  • A conjunction like "and" is a common continuative that connects two related ideas.

Examples

  • Steady in the quotation from "The Lesson" is a modal in AAVE, and steady serves as an intensified continuative.

    Academic text (2003)

  • In the category of indivisibles, some are "terminative" points, lines, or surfaces, and some are "continuative," which link the parts.

    Academic text (2016)

  • The word "also" acts as a continuative to introduce an additional point in a discussion.

  • To maintain the flow of the sentence, a continuative like "furthermore" can be very useful.

Synonyms

conjunction
vscontinuative
  • Specialized
4 1.0

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

is used without inflection rather than being any general linking term
connective
vscontinuative
  • Specialized
3.6

A word that links words, phrases, or sentences

is specifically an uninflected linking word rather than a broad function label
conjunct
vscontinuative
  • Specialized
6.8

A word like and that connects two parts of a sentence

is mainly uninflected in form rather than serving only as a clause marker

Antonyms

disjunctive
1 8.7

Showing that two things are separate

Surface Forms

continuative singular
continuatives plural

Morphology

continuative = continue (opaque) = continue + ative

The form is transparently built from continue + -ative, but the specialized grammatical noun sense is not directly predictable from those parts for an average learner.

Etymology

Continuative comes from the Latin root continu- meaning 'to keep going', the same root you see in continue and continuous. So a continuative is a small word that links words or sentences to 'keep' the flow between ideas without changing form.