PPT-Transition Words and Phrases

Prepared by John C Tacapan Adjunct Professor Long Beach City College Transition Words and Phrases This structured list of commonly used English transition words approximately 200 can be considered as quasi complete It can be used by students and teachers alike to find the right expression English transition words are essential since they not only . Appositive Phrase. What is an appositive? . Appositive Phrase Defined. Noun. phrases. Identify adjacent nouns or pronouns. Can occur at beginning, middle, or end of sentence. Examples of appositives. Help to follow the reader’s thought process… never assume the reader knows why the quote was added. Agreement and Addition. The transition words like also, in addition, and, likewise, add information, reinforce ideas, and express agreement with preceding material.. Presented by the UTA English Writing Center . Updated 11/20/2014 TW. Hosted by. English Writing Center. www.uta.edu/owl. uta-wci@uta.edu. A Division of the Department of English. Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts . What is a phrase?. A group of words, which makes sense, but not complete sense, is called a Phrase. It is a group of related words without a subject and a finite verb. . A finite verb must have a tense and agree with its subject in number and person.. Story #1 – Rope Burn. h. umiliation . hu. -mil-i-. ation. fringes . frin-ges. expectations ex-. pect. -a-. tions. coaxed coax-. ed. sincere sin-. cere. hesitating . hes. -i-ta-ting. Verb. Expresses an action or a state of being. Every sentence has at least one.. Examples. play. . I . play. . the drums. .. is. . Pizza . is. . delicious. . are trimming. . We . are trimming . the tree.. Gerunds - words that look like verbs and act like a nouns.. You can spot a gerund by looking for a verb . ing. that is acting as a noun.. Swimming. is fun.. Swim is a verb. Swimming is a verb with . Chapter 5: The Phrase Part 1: Prepositional Phrases- The Adjective & Adverb Phrase What is a phrase? A group of words that is missing a verb, a subject, or both Examples: i n the kitchen (no subject or verb) ADVERB PHRASES ( “Adverb phrases” do English Grammar Today © Cambridge University Press) Adverb phrases: forms An adverb phrase consists of one or more words. The adverb is the head of the phrase and can either appear alone or be modified by other words. phrase. is a group of words that does not include a subject and verb and cannot stand alone as a sentence.. Kinds of Phrases. Prepositional phrases. Appositive phrases. Participial phrases. Gerund phrases. What is a phrase? . . A group of words without a subject and verb, used as a part of speech.. . A phrase is not a complete idea, because it is a group of words which contains no subject/predicate set and which only acts as a single part of speech. . Transition words and phrases help establish clear connections between ideas and ensure that sentences and paragraphs flow together smoothly making them easier to read Use the following words and phras They can be groups of words or single words behaving as a unit. As such they can be substituted, moved, extended or reduced, without modifying the meaning of the sentence.. . PHRASES. 3. . Jane loves reading. She loves ‘Pride and Prejudice’.. A noun phrase includes a . noun. —a person, place, or thing—and the . modifiers.  which distinguish it. .. You can find the noun . dog.  in a sentence, for example, but you don't know which canine the writer means until you consider the entire noun phrase: .