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The document is a tasksheet for a secondary school English language class. It contains exercises on using sentence connectors and ensuring paragraph coherence, including rewriting paragraphs and filling in blanks between sentences with conjunctions. The tasksheet provides examples for students to practice their skills.

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Sentence Connectors

The document is a tasksheet for a secondary school English language class. It contains exercises on using sentence connectors and ensuring paragraph coherence, including rewriting paragraphs and filling in blanks between sentences with conjunctions. The tasksheet provides examples for students to practice their skills.

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Sri KDU Secondary School

Malaysian Hearts, Global Minds


Lower Secondary English Language Panel
Tasksheet
2014
Name of Student :

Week :

Day :

Date :

Class :

Time :

Tasksheet No :

Topic : Sentence Connectors and Paragraph Coherence

Exercise 1:
Choose transitional expressions from the given list and insert them in the paragraph below. Use correct
punctuation. (but, for example, otherwise, similarly, yet)
Since the major cost of advanced education, if the student is away from home, is board and lodging, one
can argue that as far as possible the expansion of public education beyond high school should be
arranged locally. ___________, in order to offer equal opportunities we should have to envisage using
public funds to provide years of free board and room for a considerable fraction of our high school
graduates. ____________, there are various types of professional and vocational education that can be
given at only a few centers in even a very populous state. It is literally impossible, _____, to give
adequate instruction in clinical medicine except in cities of sufficient size to support large hospitals.
____ advanced work in the arts, sciences, and letters can be done only where adequate libraries and
laboratories are at hand. It is clearly in the national interest to find all the latent talent available for the
lengthy training that research careers demand. _______, to establish research centers at every point in
the United States where general education beyond the high school is desired would be not merely
uneconomical, but impossible.
Exercise 2:
Insert an appropriate transitional expression in the second sentence of each item below. Use correct
punctuation and make the necessary spelling changes.
1. The students were elected to the senate by majority vote; ___________, the speeches of the elected
senators did not reflect the thinking of the majority of the students.
2. Some comic books provide a painless education for the young; _________, many adults could profit
from reading educational comic books
3. Over a thousand policemen were injured or killed; _____________, hundreds of policemen went to
Washington to protest.
4. It was a year of natural disasters; __________, earthquakes shook Peru.

Exercise 3
Rewrite the following paragraph. Fill in the blanks between sentences with conjunctions and connectors
selected from the following list. Not all will be used, of course, and some can be used more than once.
Use a comma (,) or a semi-colon (;) before or after the conjunctions or connectors, as necessary.
and, or, nor, but, for, so, yet, either . . . or, neither . . . nor, both and, not only but also,
however, therefore, moreover, furthermore, also, besides, consequently, else, otherwise,
nevertheless, hence, then, accordingly, likewise
My Uncle Harry was an unusual man. He was always kind, ___ at the same time he was also
temperamental. He loved children, ____ he disliked their noisy ways. He could not stand loud,
unnecessary noise ____ could he bear the discordant sounds of some modern music. He ______ watched
television_____ allowed his children to watch it. He ______ disapproved of television _______ of
movies. His idea of fun was to read the encyclopaedia to his children, SO they became very wise at early
ages. His goal was to read everything that had been written; __________, he did not succeed. He felt
that he had to read; ____ he would always be half educated. He wanted to buy books; ________, he
believed in thrift. In his old age he became ill; ______________, his eyes grew weak. The doctor told
him not to read; _____________, Uncle Harry lost interest in life. He began to watch
________television ______ films. This was bad for his eyes; _________, he said the doctor only told
him not to read. Uncle Harry was an unusual man; ___________, we loved him.

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