EXPLANATORY connectors: characteristics and examples

When we use language, we use certain words that help us link the different sentences together. These have the objective of giving meaning to the text and help the reader to better assimilate the content and ideas that are raised in it. In this lesson from a TEACHER we are going to focus on explanatory connectors their characteristics and examples pso that you can easily recognize them.

In the previous list we have mentioned the most frequent links in Spanish but we can find many more. Within them, there are also the explanatory. These are, like the previous ones, words that serve to join different sentences, words or paragraphs in order to give coherence, organize and structure a text.

The explanatory, like all links have their own functionality that is used when the sender of the message wants explain some complex idea. The explanatory connectors serve to join different sentences or paragraphs in which explanations are given regarding a main idea that must be explained.

Through them, different elements can be joined that help, by repeating the same idea, to clarify or expand it so that it is understood by the reader of the text. Some examples of these explanatory connectors are:

• For example
• Namely
• In other words
• I mean
• I mean

To better understand how they work we are going to see different explanatory connector examples used within sentences:

• The management of the school indicated that it was not advisable to wear street shoes when you enter the pavilion. In other wordsYou will have to wear special shoes when you go to gym class.
• This house belongs to my family, I mean It was bought by my grandfather and since then a member has always lived in it.
• You can get it if you try hard, namelyStudy hard and work harder and you will be able to pass the exam without problems.
• Buy something to eat, for example some fish.
• You are letting it go, I mean that you should pay more attention to what is happening around you if you want to improve the situation you are going through at the moment.

We hope that you have clarified your doubts about the explanatory connectors, their characteristics and their examples and we encourage you to continue evolving and learning through our lessons from Spanish language.