Hey guys raunchier transitions them and transitions a phrase that you should have heard before they
covered a lot in school here.
So if you haven't heard the term before you probably haven't paid attention in school that much but
you need to know these things you need to know your However and you therefore use them a lot in your
essays.
And it's actually why the college would test you on it so much because they want you to use those words.
So let's see how they test you and transitions in the writing way intersection.
Transitions are key words that help you connect passengers.
Here we can you can see that the College Board is asking you which should we put in here.
Which of these words connects these two sentences better.
So let's take a look.
What are the price and say typically the ice sheet begins to show evidence of thawing in late summer
following several weeks of higher temperatures.
So make sure you know you think about what that means.
We didn't go OK I read it.
This is saying that the ice sheets normally begin to melt in late summer.
That said the doctor says in the summer of 2012 virtually the entire Greenland I shot.
Greenland ice sheet underwent thawing at or near its surface by mid-July.
The earliest date on record it's normally late summer.
But this time it happened in mid-July so it's very early.
Would this be an example of late summer no definitely not right.
It's OIO.
Is it a contrast from late summer.
Yeah we thought it be late summer of it was actually earlier.
As such kind of means as a consequence or an example of the prior point.
So again that's not the answer.
More other means it's additional point.
It's an additional point that's further building on the point earlier.
But it's not it's saying something different that is unusual.
So hence that's not the answer either.
So if you knew what what each of these transitions meant you would have found the answer must have been.
However let's try one more here.
We have different transitions we have.
However we have in addition for these reasons and likewise as usual begin with the prior sentence.
The spaces are usually stocked with standard office equipment such as photocopiers printers and fax
machines.
So the previous sentence talked about what's normally examples of what's normally in these bases in
this sentence we're saying that spaces often include small meeting areas and larger rooms for hosting
presentations so we talked about equipment and that's talking about the rooms that are there.
So is that a contrast.
Well it's different.
But is it something that opposes what was said before.
Not really right.
I mean we can leave it as it may maybe because clearly it's not the same thing.
But I'm giving you no extra information about the spaces so I don't think it's a contrast is it B says
in addition to equipment that's almost perfect because it's a new point in the same direction which
is of course describing these spaces.
And just to make sure they even told you it's in addition to the equipment which they just mentioned
there's an extra connection to be almost definitely the answer.
C says for these reasons make sense it's not because there's equipment there's rooms and it's not similarly
or likewise because what's similar about them like the way they have equipment is similar to the way
they have rooms.
I mean you know if you restrict your head you could say oh yeah it's kind of a contrast because before
as the equipment rooms it's kind of similar because they're both things that are in the spaces maybe
you need space for this equipment.
All of sensors is a kind of maybe maybe but he gave me that double connected meaning it said.
In addition he's a further point that describes the spaces.
And in addition to the equipment so I connected it two times.
So I'm pretty sure that B must be the answer to that one.
So you can see that the skill of picking the right transition isn't that hard in itself but the trouble
comes in having to know what each of those transitions mean.
Now the major ones you probably know but there are going to be some that perhaps you're not familiar
with.
So I want to take you through a list of the most common ones but you should try and supplement that
with additional transitions too.
If you really want to make sure that you're fully prepared for this test take a look.
So here are the most common transitions that appear a lot in the city.
He's been showing up for years and neither is of course you know your However is and your likewise is
and moreover you therefore is all important.
For examples we see him all the time.
You definitely want to know every single word on this list here.
Pause.
Write it down.
Try creating your own disease and then to reinforce what they mean.
I would if I were you go on the website on the web and look for transitions but not until you had these
down 100 percent.
If these are like you know super easy for you and you only know them go ahead.
Review some websites.
Now there are plenty of them out there with some websites that give you some different transitions and
add to your knowledge but to recap the most important thing when you're trying to pick the best transition
is to look for the logical connections.
How does that prize and connect to the sentence what's the logical relationship with which chance of
choice has the most logical connections.
And secondly make sure you memorize the list of transitions.
Make sure you memorize this list of transitions.