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Vocabulary

               Signal words
               You are probably familiar with many or most of these conjunctions and connectors. There are many
               connectors that we can use to express similarity, contrast, cause, effect, or addition.

                To express contrast:                          To express Addition:
                        Instead of                                   Along with
                        Although                                     In addition to
                        However                                      Moreover
                        Compared with                                Furthermore
                        But
                        On the other hand                     To express cause and effect situation:
                        Unless                                       Because
                                                                     Since
                To express similarities:                             Consequently
                        Same as                                      Nevertheless
                        Similar to                                   Accordingly
                        As well as                                   Because of
                                                                     For this reason


               Use connectors to express contrast, similarity, addition, and cause-effect to combine the two sentences
               into one sentence to respond expression of requesting or offering.

              1.  I am glad to help you. I have to finish my report before noon, sorry. (however/for this reason)
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              2.  I  am  sorry  I  can’t.  I  have  to  go  out  to  Cadbury  hotel  to  have  a  meeting  with  the  new  client.
                  (moreover/because)
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              3.  Thank  you  for  your  offer.  I  need  to  discuss  it  with  my  team  first  before  I  decide  on  the  result.
                  (accordingly/however)
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              4.  We  need  to  discuss  the  presentation  for  the  new  project.  We  have  to  decline  your  lunch  offer.
                  (Consequently/As well as)
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              5.  I will be in the meeting room in a moment. Please bring me a copy of the presentation material to the
                  meeting room. (in addition/however)

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