Linking adverbials (Conjuncts) | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 |

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[Linking adverbials #1]
FOCUS: Use and function of linking adverbials (conjuncts).
Sort concordances by keyword in the following exercises, unless stated otherwise.

1) "Furthermore", "moreover" and "therefore" are all linking adverbials, but which of the three is most commonly used in the corpus?
furthermore
moreover
therefore

2) Which of the three is (proportionally) least likely to occur sentence-initially, according to the corpus search results (sort concordance by left word)?
furthermore
moreover
therefore

3) Sort concordance by left word and search for "however"; look at the first ten lines of hits. In how many of these has "however" NOT been used as a linking adverbial?
1
2
3

4) Sort concordance by right word and search for "however"; look at the first ten lines of hits. In how many of these has "however" been used in clause-initial position?
1
2
3

5) In the corpus, can "as a consequence" be used to replace "consequently"?
yes, in all occurrences
yes, in more than half of the occurrences
no, never

6) In the corpus, does "conclusively" have the same function as "in conclusion"?
yes, in all occurrences
yes, in more than half of the occurrences
no, never

7) Which of the following near synonyms has been used as a linking adverbial in the corpus?
incidentally
accidentally
fortuitously

8) In the corpus, has "first" been used as a linking adverbial as a variant of "firstly"?
yes, in some occurrences
no, never
yes, in all occurrences


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