Linking words: first, also, however, so, for example
Linking words show how your ideas connect. Learn five jobs they do (list, add, contrast, result and example), choose the word by its meaning and put the comma in the right place.
10 min
Module 18 · Lesson 3 of 5
In this lesson
- Choose a linking word to list points, add an idea, show a contrast, give a result or give an example.
- Use because before a reason and so before a result.
- Put commas in the right place with linking words, and start a new sentence with However.
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