COHESION
Subject: English
Age range: 7 - 16
Resource type: Worksheet/Activity
A two-page handout to introduce this subject.
There are two main types of cohesion: grammatical cohesion which is based on structural content, and lexical cohesion which is based on lexical content and background knowledge. A cohesive text is created in many different ways. In Cohesion in English, M.A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan identify five general categories of cohesive devices that create coherence in texts:
REFERENCE
ELLIPSIS
SUBSTITUTION
LEXICAL COHESION
CONJUNCTION
There are two main types of cohesion: grammatical cohesion which is based on structural content, and lexical cohesion which is based on lexical content and background knowledge. A cohesive text is created in many different ways. In Cohesion in English, M.A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan identify five general categories of cohesive devices that create coherence in texts:
REFERENCE
ELLIPSIS
SUBSTITUTION
LEXICAL COHESION
CONJUNCTION
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