Using Sentence Starters and Transitions
How This Chapter Can Help You
This chapter will help you:
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Use sentence starters and transitions to make your writing flow smoothly.
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Connect your ideas clearly within and between paragraphs.
Video Version
Watch the PowerPoint video with voiceover for this chapter.
When to Use Sentence Starters
You can use them to:
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Begin a paragraph.
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Add evidence.
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Explain or expand an idea.
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Connect ideas between sentences or paragraphs.
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Compare or contrast ideas.
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Summarise or conclude your points.
Sentence Starters by Purpose
Click each heading below to explore useful sentence starters.
These examples can help you build clear, connected sentences in different parts of your paragraph or essay. You do not need to use them word for word. Choose the ones that fit your style and topic.
Sentence Strarters by Purpose H5P created by Róisín Kelly. CC BY NC 4.0.
Now try this
Now it is your turn. Match the sentence starters to their purpose.
Interactive Match the Sentence starters H5P activity created by Róisín Kelly. CC BY NC 4.0.
Now that you have practised sentence starters, return to the Essay Builder to apply them in your own plan.
Downloads
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Quick Guide – Sentence Starters by Purpose.
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Worksheet – Practise Using Sentence Starters.
