In a sentence
Six example sentences with connective, each labelled with its topic.
The translator dropped a single connective, and two clauses that argued with each other suddenly seemed to agree.
Literature
Children acquire the connective "because" much later than "and," which appears in their speech before age three.
Psychology
The parser tags every connective so the summariser knows which half of a long line carries the claim.
Technology
Logicians treat each connective such as 'and' or 'or' as an operator whose truth table is fixed whatever it joins.
Philosophy
The whole appeal turned on one connective, since 'or' in the statute meant either condition alone triggered the penalty.
Law
A phrasebook teaches nouns but rarely a connective, so travelers string words together without ever managing to say 'but'.
Travel
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