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Review exercise 1
Contrastive sentence connectors

Purpose: This exercise reviews the ten contrastive sentence connectors most common to academic writing.

Instructions: In this exercise, you will be presented with short texts that lack a sentence connector. Choose the best alternative from the pull-down select box, and then press the "CHECK" button to receive feedback on your choice.

Because the meaning of these connectors can sometimes overlap, more than one correct answer is possible in the following exercise.

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Estimated time: 30 minutes.

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