The corporate world is getting better and better every day. People are moving ahead to improve themselves in every possible way. One such step that people are taking is in learning English.
As we all are aware that English is an officially declared international language. Every individual who is seeking a better future is making an effort to develop communication skills. It is a must in today’s life. To build a strong career you will need to improve the way to communicate with others and drafting important as well as official documents.
Writing is not an easy task, it will require a roadmap that will guide you through to improve your writing. In this lesson, we will be examining the way a writer will transition between sentences, within paragraphs, and between different paragraphs. It will help you to make your reading experience smooth.
Why roadmaps are important for a better writing?
Have you imagines a situation when you need to travel from one place to another without any GPS support. You will solely rely on the paper map or the signs or indicators that you could see on the road. Similarly, in English, you need some guides, signs or indicators that will help you to transit from one sentence to another. You must avoid any such bumpy statements or dead-ends in your writing.
Being a writer when you progress through the sentences and in between the body of the paragraph, the readers should feel that there is an easy transition. You must be very effective while making a statement. If done well, it will provide a clear path where readers could easily follow and reach a destination.
In this lesson, you will get to know how the transition takes place between individual sentences and you will know how to transit from one paragraph to another.
How to Make Transition from One Sentence to Another
Moving ahead with transition, you need to know, what exactly are transitions? How will they work? What are their different applications?
Basically, in English grammar transition are words, a group of words or phrases that will help you in carrying out thought from one idea to another. For instance, you will understand this with a small example.
- Marina Bay Club is a 25-year-old club.
- Only 18 years old and above can enter it with valid ID.
While reading both the sentence you won’t find anything wrong in the grammar or wordings but the thing that is lacking here is a transition. Both the sentence appears to be abrupt and choppy. You can easily make it transitional by adding a small word ‘however’ to it. The change will not be very drastic, but it will make the transition between two sentences easier to read.
How to Make Transition Between Two Different Paragraphs
Now, when you have understood how the transition takes place between sentences. We will be moving ahead with knowing how to make a transition between paragraphs.
When you see two different paragraphs, you will find nothing wrong with them. But simply a thing that they are not related to each other. There will be a lack of transition and the two-paragraph won’t be able to connect to each other. When there is no actual transition in the sentences or paragraphs the content looks choppy and it will make difficult for other people to read. Just as you could see the road analogy in the above paragraph you would feel a bump in between while reading it. You can easily identify what happens when we add transition – it will smooth out the sentences and help the readers along the way.
How Transition Helps in Making a Smooth Flow
When you use transitions, it will show that your paragraphs work together in collaboration. They help each other to provide a good meaning to the entire content. If sometimes, you fail to use transition, the content looks abrupt with dead ends. It will leave the readers struggling to follow the long train of thoughts.
You can use the given below tips to improve the paragraph and essay transitions in your writing.
- Make use of transitional words. Take your time to think about some good transitional words and then work the best for yourself. You can have a look at the List of Transition Words to Join Sentences & Paragraphs.
- At the beginning of any paragraph, you need to introduce some ideas that you are going to discuss in the paragraph. When you use such words it will help you to understand that the phrase is switching to a new idea.
- Organization of paragraphs using supporting ideas.
Conclusion:
With all these tips and tricks you can easily work out the transition of words, sentences, and paragraphs. With EnglishBix, you can make sure that you lead your readers from one idea to another.