Monday, December 5, 2011

Cause and Effect Expressions

Gentlemen,

Making a Connection:- When you read that one action or event is the result of another action or event, you are reading about a cause-and- effect relationship. A cause makes something happen; an effect is what happens as a result of that cause. The link between cause and effect can sometimes be very obvious; at other times you may be required to make an educated guess about the connection.
When writers want to make cause-and-effect relationships very obvious for the reader, they do so with clue words that signal the cause-and- effect relationship.
A few more words and phrases that can signal cause-and-effect relationships are
accordingly, affect, as a result, because, cause, consequently,effect, for,
the reason why, results in, since, therefore why.......

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http://www.usq.edu.au/users/sonjb/projects/wbll/teacher-made/gap-fill2.htm
http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/exercises/cause&effect.htm