Grammatical Connectors
Several types of cohesive factors have been recognized:
Conjunctive Relations
What is about to be said is explicitly related to what has been said before, though such notion as contrast, result, and time.
Exemple :
I left early, however, Mark stayed till the end.
- Lastly, there's the question of cost
Co-Reference
Features that cannot be semantically interpreted without referring to some other features in the text. Two types of relationships are recognized:
*Anaphoric relations look backward for their interpretation.
e.g.My sister's computer is more reliable than mine, but then hers is newer
*Cataphoric relations look forward.
e.g. Listen to this: john's getting married.
She is Mr Brown secretary, Synthia was at school with me.
Substitution
One feature replaces a previous expression:
e.g. I've got a pencil, Do you have one?
Will we get there on time? I think so.
*It can be: nominal, verbal or clausal.
e.g. these trousers are not as tight as the other ones.
-did he read the whole book? Yes he did.
-she bought a black car; I did the same.
Ellipsis
A piece of structure is omitted and can be understood only from the preceding discourse.
e.g. Where did you see the car? < In the street.
