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2. Transition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   A transition or linking word is a word or phrase that shows the relationship between paragraphs or sections of a text or speech. [1] Transitions provide greater cohesion by making it more explicit or signaling how ideas relate to one another. [1] Transitions are, in fact, "bridges" that "carry a reader from section to section". [1]

3. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   In this sense, the subordinate clauses of these languages have much in common with postpositional phrases. In other West Germanic languages like German and Dutch, the word order after a subordinating conjunction is different from that in an independent clause, e.g. in Dutch want ('for') is coordinating, but omdat ('because') is subordinating ...

4. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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   Words that imitate/spell a sound or noise. Word that sounds the same as, or similar to what the word means. "Boom goes the dynamite." "Bang!" "Bark." (comic books) Oxymoron: A term made of two words that deliberately or coincidentally imply each other's opposite. "terrible beauty" Paradox: A phrase that describes an idea composed of concepts ...

5. Cohesion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Repetition uses the same word, or synonyms, antonyms, etc. For example, "Which dress are you going to wear?" – "I will wear my green frock," uses the synonyms "dress" and "frock" for lexical cohesion. Collocation uses related words that typically go together or tend to repeat the same meaning. An example is the phrase "once upon a time".

6. Linkword - Wikipedia

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   In reality, words often have a different range of meanings, and so the student must learn the complexity or nuance of the new words. For this reason, such techniques may be seen as a useful and powerful way to progress in the language, especially in the early stages, rather than giving a complete understanding.

7. Link grammar - Wikipedia

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   Link grammar (LG) is a theory of syntax by Davy Temperley and Daniel Sleator which builds relations between pairs of words, rather than constructing constituents in a phrase structure hierarchy. Link grammar is similar to dependency grammar , but dependency grammar includes a head-dependent relationship, whereas link grammar makes the head ...