Connecting words

English skills and support

This book is to help you with English skills when you are studying science. The English skills and support section gives you information about important topics in English that you will use in science. You can use this section at any time you need help with English while studying science. In this English reference section, there is information about English grammar and vocabulary to help you with science. Many diff erent grammatical words will be explained in the English language referencesection. Connecting words Connecting words help you to join two pieces of information together in different ways. In science, we often need to talk about more than one thing. We can join two ideas together with connecting words, for example: and, but, because, so. These are called connectives. Connectives are like glue – they stick two ideas together. There are many connecting words in English and they do diff erent things in sentences. Connective What it is used for and connecting two positives together or connecting two negatives together but connecting a positive and a negative together because giving a reason why so giving the result of a situation SAMPLE