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Linking ideas in academic writing

Explore the grammar behind linking ideas in your academic writing including: prepositional phrases, conjunctions, clauses & adverbial phrases.

You can use different methods to link ideas in your academic writing but it’s essential to understand the grammar behind them.

In this video Jonathan compares three sentences that have the same meaning. They all include two ideas, linked in different ways. Explore the underpinning grammar and how we use prepositional phrases, conjunctions, clauses and adverbial phrases in different ways.

You can view the examples from the video in this PDF document.

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