Example Sentences

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The most obvious two are similarity and contrast: Coherence Relation Example Typical Connectives Similarity Herons live in the and, similarly, likewise, northern United States. too Herons live in most of Canada.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Typical Connectives but, while, however, nonetheless, yet despite, even though One other major coherence relation doesn’t easily fit into Hume’s trichotomy, attribution: so-and-so believes such-and-such.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Typical Connectives and, before, then after, once, while, when The language gives writers a second way of controlling the order in which two events are mentioned.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"Connectives are words which unite words and sentences in construction."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

In the following exposition of English grammar on scientific principles, I shall divide words into seven classes; Nouns or Names, Verbs, Adjectives, Adnouns, or Attributes, Adverbs, Propositions, Pronouns, and Conjunctions or Connectives.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel