Cohesion and Conjunction Quiz

Is this statement true or false: The same conjunction may be used to signal different relations, depending on the context.

• False

• True

Conjunction expresses one of a ............. number of general relations.

• large

• small

• moderate

Halliday and Hasan identify ................ main cohesive devices in English

• five

• four

• three

Reference, then, is a device that allows ............... to trace participants, entities, events and so on in a text.

• reader or speaker

• the reader or hearer

• writer or speaker

In other words, in ellipsis, an item is replaced by ................

• nothing

• another item

• two other items

................ is a word or phrase which links together two CLAUSES, groups or words.

• Lexical cohesion

• Conjunction

• Substitution

Conjunction ……… the way the writer or speaker wants the reader or hearer to relate what is about to be said to what has been said before.

• reflects

• signals

• represents

Cohesion is the network of lexical, .............. and other relations that provide links between various parts of a text.

• grammatical

• natural

• typical

Is this statement true or false: The boundary lines between the three types of cohesive device (reference, substitution and ellipsis) are not clear cut.

• True

• False

"They fought a battle. Afterwards, it snowed."

This is an example of...

• additive conjunction

• adversative conjunction

• temporal conjunction