College Composition / Unit 16 CMP 0377 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Transitions Show Relationships
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The idea
Transitional words and phrases show how sentences and paragraphs relate: whether ideas connect, build, contrast or follow in time.
In practice
In "Companies present gas as cleaner than coal. However, drilling leaks methane," however tells readers the second sentence pushes back on the first.
Where people slip
Without transitions, readers must guess at relationships; with the wrong ones, they guess wrong.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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