CAUSATIVE CONNECTORS
 

Causative connectors help guide the reader to see logical connections and can be grouped into five grammatical classes, as shown in the box above.

  • sentence connectors commonly occur at the beginning of a sentence, are typically separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma, and introduce a result or effect that logically follows from causes or reasons given in the previous sentence.
  • In contrast, subordinators, prepositions, verbs, and special nouns function within a single sentence and can signal either reason/cause or result/effect relations.

Click below on a class or individual connectors to see explanations and examples.
 
Sentence connectors Subordinators Prepositions Verbs Nouns
Thus
Therefore
Hence
Consequently
As a result
As a consequence
For this reason
Accordingly
 since
because
as
in that
 because of
due to
as a result of
as a consequence of
owing to
On account of
 leads to
results in
causes
contributes to
results from
arises from
stems from
 The cause of
The reason for
The effect of
a result of
a consequence of
the effect of
 
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