LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - STARTERS Flashcards

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LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS

  • Endeavors to s
  • Endeavors to p
  • Endeavors to put
  • Expresses a
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  • [ ] endeavors to show that
  • [ ] endeavors to prove that
  • [ ] endeavors to put forth that
  • [ ] endeavors to show
  • Expresses a view… to the effect that
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LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS

  • Seeks to
  • Believes
  • Having … then
  • Endeavors to e…
  • Having … goes on
  • Argues
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  • [ ] seeks to criticise
  • Believes that
  • Having dismissed … [ ] then
  • [ ] endeavors to expose
  • Having dismissed… goes on to…
  • [ ] argues that
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LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS

  • Claims
  • The… suggests
  • … makes a connection
  • … concludes
  • According …
  • Another reason …
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  • [ ] claims that
  • the … suggests that…
  • The [ ] makes a connection between
  • [ ] concludes that
  • According to [ ]
  • Another reason why [ ] thinks
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LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS

  • … takes his argument
  • … Argues not only…
  • One example
  • offers…
  • … begins by discussing
  • … levels various criticisms…
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  • [ ] takes his argument further in suggesting that…
  • [ ] argues not only that… but also…
  • One example of this is…
  • [ ] offers…
  • [ ] begins by discussing
  • [ ] levels various criticisms against
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LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS

  • … contends…
  • … attacks
  • … concern
  • … presents…
  • In delimiting…
  • Arguably…
  • Generally…
  • … also seems…
  • … attempts to show
  • Because of the examples…
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  • [ ] contends that
  • [ ] attacks
  • [ ] concern is with…
  • [ ] presents his views about…
  • in delimiting the ways in which
    … [ ] …
  • Arguably…
  • Generally assumed that…
  • He also seems to…
  • [ ] attempts to show how…
  • Because of the examples that [ ] has chosen to use..
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LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS (INTRODUCTION)

  • The writer asserts…
  • Quickly establishes…
  • In a … tone…
  • The point of view…
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  • The writer asserts that
  • Quickly establishes the main contention that
  • In a … tone, the writer declares/contends that…
  • The point of view presented by [ ] is…
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LANGUAGE ANALYSIS - SENTENCE STARTERS (PARAGRAPHS)

  • Predisposes…
  • … lend credibility
  • The writer seeks to…
  • The writer aims to…
  • By relentlessly attacking…
  • By addressing the…
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  • … predisposes us to…
  • … lend credibility to the writer’s argument
  • … the writer seeks to coerce the reader into believing that…
  • The [ ] aims to appeal to…
  • By relentlessly attacking the opposing the view, the [ ] leads us to accept that…
  • By addressing the reader informally, the writer establishes a sense…
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