Thesaurus / connectives
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synonyms for connectives
- association
- channel
- contact
- element
- hookup
- network
- relationship
- tie
- articulation
- attachment
- bond
- connective
- constituent
- copula
- coupler
- coupling
- division
- fastening
- hitch
- in
- interconnection
- interface
- intersection
- joining
- joint
- junction
- knot
- ligament
- ligation
- ligature
- loop
- member
- nexus
- part
- piece
- ring
- seam
- section
- splice
- tie up
- weld
- yoke
- vinculum
- obligation
- relationship
- affiliation
- affinity
- attachment
- connection
- connective
- friendship
- hookup
- interrelationship
- liaison
- link
- marriage
- network
- restraint
- tie
- tie-in
- union
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How to use connectives in a sentence
The third method of securing coherence in a sentence is by the use of connectives.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERThe use of connectives has been discussed when treating of emphasis secured by subdual of unimportant details.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERThe organs of locomotion: muscles and their attachments and connectives; namely, tendons, ligaments, and bones.
A CIVIC BIOLOGYGEORGE WILLIAM HUNTERIn these combinations, the vowels e and o are sometimes used as connectives.
SUMMARY NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORATORY EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, IN 1820HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFTClosely associated with the optic was the small oculomotor, and near the connectives the small second antennal.
JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY: VOLUME 6, NUMBER 4, DECEMBER 1914VARIOUSConnectives that accompany a parallel series should be repeated when clearness requires.
THE CENTURY HANDBOOK OF WRITINGGARLAND GREEVERLook carefully to the little connectives that bind up the thought, words that are only too rare in our English language.
TALKS TO FRESHMAN GIRLSHELEN DAWES BROWNIf it means a neglect of connectives, it may, perhaps, apply to Brutus.
A DIALOGUE CONCERNING ORATORY, OR THE CAUSES OF CORRUPT ELOQUENCECORNELIUS TACITUSBut, “shining and tall and fair and straight,” because all the connectives are expressed.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERThus these co-ordinate conjunctions can scarcely be considered as pure connectives.
PLAIN ENGLISHMARIAN WHARTON