Information & Practice with

Transitions-Connectors-Linking Words-Joiners

Nevertheless vs. However
This first one has a short and I think clear explanation as well as a practice exercise.  http://www.connect2esl.com/main/activities/however_nevertheless1.htm  4/14 UPDATE:  I just noticed that the practice exercise isn't working correctly - it's not marking the answers accurately. We'll do this in class on Tuesday.

This  second one is a good one too! Do the pre-exercise reading by clicking on the "however" and "nevertheless" links first, then try the practice exercises at  http://sana.tkk.fi/awe/cohesion/signposts/contrast/exercises/selectbox1.html  4/14 UPDATE:  My apologies - I forgot to put the link for the pre-exercise readings.  Here it is:  http://sana.tkk.fi/awe/cohesion/signposts/contrast/sentence/however.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/youmeus/learnit/learnitv206.shtml
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=13559
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/24312-nevertheless-vs-however.html

General Explanations and Lists of Transitional Phrases:

Examples in sentence context - http://www.scribd.com/doc/467542/16-sentence-connectors-129

List, examples in paragraph context, and exercises - ESL042/Transitionsparagraphadv.pdf

http://www.mun.ca/writingcentre/docs/OnLineTransitionalWords.pdf

ESL042/transitionsquicktips.pdf

Powerpoint Explanation & Link to interactive exercise - Using Transitions -

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/sensen/part3/sixteen/techniques_transitional.html

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/transitions.html

http://writing.umn.edu/sws/quicktips/style_grammar/transitions.htm

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/#connectors

http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/index.php?page=linking-words-2

http://englishonline.free.fr/GrammarAndHelp/HowToExpressThoughts/LinkwordsDoc.htm
 

http://www.waukesha.uwc.edu/academics/owl/transitions.html

http://www.queensu.ca/writingcentre/handouts/transitions.pdf

http://www.io.com/~tcm/structure/cgi-bin/transitions0.cgi?codes=transitions_doc&source=transitions_doc.txt&version=classroom

http://www.law.mercer.edu/academics/handouts/Transitions%20from%20Oates.doc

Comparison/Contrast
Explanation & interactive Exercise - http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/contrastclauses.htm

Cause/Effect -
Explanation & interactive Exercises -  http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/causeconnect.html
Cause & Effect - http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/exercises/cause&effect.htm
Purpose & Reason  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/2004/u2/purposereasonresultclauses.htm

Exemplification (for example, for instance, such as)
Explanation and Exercise - http://myenglishteacher.net/forexample.html
 

General Interactive Quizzes Only
http://www.virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us/lumanr2/English_25/transitions.htm
http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/gc-connectives.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/conj01.html
http://www.better-english.com/grammar/conjunctions.htm
 

Practice Exercises/Handouts Only
http://esl.frank-ed.com/133/connector_practice.pdf