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COHESIVE TIES USED IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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  • Suaad Yaseen Khalaf

Abstract

Cohesive relations are ties or binds between two or more components in texts such as between a
personal pronoun and an antecedent proper noun, for example Tom…..he, Tom and Jack…..they.
Any semantic relation is arranged either inside a sentence or among sentences. Cohesive ties are
one possible field of investigation in stylistics. They can be words or phrases that are used to
connect ideas between different parts of atext. These ideas tie together clearly, the writing is
coherent and the reader can follow along easily, when ideas, sentences, and details fit together
clearly. These cohesive relations help the readers to stay focused on the idea being discussed.Text
can be coherentwhen its sentences are logically organized and connected. Furthermore, the
transition among the sentences is natural and easy and the relationship betweensentences and
paragraphsrealized by the readers so the ideas can be easily followed by the readerfor gettingthe
discourse. A text becomes connected by cohesion to formthe unity. Cohesive ties are classified
into two types: ''the lexical''and ''the grammatical'' cohesion. Thelexical cohesion has two types:
''reiteration''and ''collocation'', while the grammatical cohesion can be divided into four types:

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Suaad Yaseen Khalaf. (2020). COHESIVE TIES USED IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology, 17(7), 12652-12659. Retrieved from https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/4950