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Essential B1 Connectors: Category Connector USE Form Examples

This document provides a table summarizing essential connectors used to link ideas in English. It lists connectors used to indicate reason, purpose, result, contrast, and addition and provides the form and examples of how each connector is used. Connectors like "because", "so", and "in order to" introduce reasons and purposes, while connectors like "but", "although", and "despite" connect contrasting ideas. Connectors like "also", "too", and "moreover" are used to add more information to an existing point.

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Essential B1 Connectors: Category Connector USE Form Examples

This document provides a table summarizing essential connectors used to link ideas in English. It lists connectors used to indicate reason, purpose, result, contrast, and addition and provides the form and examples of how each connector is used. Connectors like "because", "so", and "in order to" introduce reasons and purposes, while connectors like "but", "although", and "despite" connect contrasting ideas. Connectors like "also", "too", and "moreover" are used to add more information to an existing point.

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ESSENTIAL B1 CONNECTORS

CATEGORY CONNECTOR USE FORM E X A M PL E S

When the reason is a noun we We didn't recognise him because of the


Reason, purpose & result

Because (of), as, since Give a reason for something


use because of. sunglasses.
(linking words)

"So" is in the middle of a


sentence, whereas "therefore" I'm tired so I won't go out tonight. / I'm really
So & therefore Give the result of something
appears at the beginning and tired. Therefore , I won't go out tonight.
followed by a comma.
I have joined an academy to learn English. /
To & in order to Explain why we do sth; the purpose Always followed by an infitivive I've joined an acaemy in order to learn
English.
But, although & The hotel was excellent, but the food was not
Connect two contrasting ideas
though good.
But is normally in the midde of a Followed by a clause
(pronoun/noun + verb). The hotel was excellent although/though the
sentence, preceded by a comma,
food was not good. / Although/though the food
while "although/though" can go in
was not good, the hotel was excellent.
the middel and at the beginning.
Contrast

The hotel was excellent  despite  the food being


In spite of
bad/the bad food.
Followed by a noun or an -ing The hotel was excellent  in spite of  the food
Despite phrase; never by a being bad/the bad food.
Contrast two ideas. pronoun/noun + verb. Can be
Despite  the food being bad/the bad food, the
used either at the beginning or in
hotel was excellent.
However the middle of a sentence.
In spite of  the food being bad/the bad food,
the hotel was excellent.
“Buying car is a long-term commitment.  Also,
«Too» normally goes at the end a car is very expensive to run.”
and is used in positive “Buying car is a long-term commitment. In
Use these linking words to add more sentences. «Also» (as a addition, a car is very expensive to run.”
Addition

also, too, in addition,


information to something we have sentence adverb), «in “Buying car is a long-term
moreover
said. addition» and commitment.  Moreover, a car is very
«moreover» usually go at the expensive to run.”
beginning. “Buying car is a long-term commitment. A car is
very expensive to run,  too .”

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