In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 5 in the category of discourse markers: in writing, ORGANISING, MARKING NEW KNOWLEDGE, INFORMAL ‘you see’, ‘the thing is’ *Note that ‘the thing is’ is listed at B2 in the category of FOCUS. A search in the TLC shows that at B1 ‘the thing is’ is used, but …
B1 Point 4 in the category of discourse markers is defined: in writing ORGANISING – range of phrases to introduce contrasting statements. The English Grammar Profile uses two examples, both of which clash against the English Vocabulary Profile: *’on the (other|one) hand’. ‘On the contrary’ We have accidentally double posted this topic. The other page …
In this post, we explore some common connecting words, also known as linking or transition words. In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 49 in ADVERBs/as modifiers is defined as: adverbs as discourse markers to organise text. (position) For example: Finally, I just take a rest. PELIC STUDENT: Arabic, Male, level 3, writing class Although the title of this post lists only …
Point 1 in the category of discourse markers, writing and ORGANISING is defined as: ‘as you know’ as a discourse marker of shared knowledge. 1 AS YOU KNOW , I AM A 130 2 AS YOU KNOW , I ‘M A 87 3 AS YOU KNOW , I ‘VE BEEN 86 4 AS YOU KNOW …
B1 point 4 in DISCOURSE MARKERS and in writing is defined as: ORGANISING with a range of phrases as discourse markers to introduce contrasting statements. The English Grammar Profile examples listed are: ‘on the one hand’, ‘on the other hand’ and ‘on the contrary’. They seem to start sentences more often than not. Ngrams from …
