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I'm Gabby Wallace and this is Go Natural English
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so I love teaching English and I have a short lesson for you right now
for you all who are working on your writing skills
in this video we're going to talk about transitions
and specifically kinda transitions that show
a contrast in your ideas alright
so let's get started I wanna share for stovall
some transitions
however in contrast on be
on the other hand
transition however comma in contrast
comma and on the other hand comma
and these are all used to show something
different something completely
on the contrary is coming up something
one hundred eighty degrees from what you've been talking about
so for example I Boston
has cold weather however
los Angeles has hot weather okay
I Boston has cold weather in contrast
hawaii has great warm weather Boston is cold
on other hand miami is hot
okay so these are completely different ideas
so those are simple ideas now when you write
hopefully your writing is going to be way more
I it it's going to be at a higher level than those sentences
that I just gave as examples the most important thing that I can tell you
from the mistakes that I've seen my students making
is to make sure that you use these transitions when you're ready to show
a completely opposite and contrary idea
it can not be a continuation on the same
thought so about bad news for these transitions would be
Boston is really cold however
I sometimes its only a little cold
doesn't really make sense your credit continue with the same idea
so Boston is really cold in contrast
Boston have a lot of snow doesn't really work its kind in the same idea
however another one boston's really cold on that other hand
you can ice skate there so
well has to be cold in order to ice skate so those
ideas go together to see how those are not
opposite ideas and you cannot use these transitions
these transitions are great for showing
opposite ideas so use these transitions when you have to write an essay showing
two different points of view showing the pros and the cons
or sharing your own point of view and then
adding be opposite point of view in to show that you understand that
okay so I hope that these three transitions
and my explanation with some examples with helpful for you today
I wish you the best in your writing remember to use
however in contrast and on the
other hand followed by a comma to show your
opposite idea from what you
wrote about previously I you have any questions or comments
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