Talk:Transition (linguistics)

Deleting
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Whoever is deleting the link to the English Transitional Words Database http://www.carlosignacio.com/twd is making a huge mistake! Because not only that database is being worked out since 2005 but also because is a work in progress that has been useful to many aspiring writers; the prove of that is the number of visits that the website receives every day, thanks!

Transition words are words that help your composition to sound logical and coherent.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.39.171.137 (talk) 15:31, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Dear, you are not logical and coherent in this article.You don't have the academic benefit of grammar. This whole article is worth removing. Birbal Kumawat (talk) 03:31, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Same as conjunctions?
The content of this page seems to overlap with Conjunction (grammar). At the very least someone who knows the relation between the two should include an explanation of the differences and similarities, along with a link to that article. But possibly they should be merged. The conjunction article exists in many Wikipedias in other languages, but the Transitions page only exists in English and German. Ian Dalton (talk) 02:30, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Link to direction is to "writing direction"
Under the heading Spatial Transitions, the "direction" link goes to "writing direction". That's probably not what was intended. I do not not have a better solution. Peace.2600:6C44:767F:F1BE:D1C7:9B31:C0B5:87D8 (talk) 02:20, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

It's nothing but folly.....
What an article it is! Whoever has generated this shallow term 'transition' is not acknoweleged to the basic concepts of grammar. Whatever you have said is nothing but conjunction and conjunct. Dear, rather than reaching you need reading. Please read good books of Grammar and amend yourself. Please stop making others fool. Your humorous ideology is not worth following. If you don't come out of your fool-making attitude, there are courts to proceed a legal action against you. Please, beware and remove this article from here. Birbal Kumawat (talk) 03:25, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

In grammar there is nothing as transition. Only those who don't have a solid understanding of grammar support this type of a rubbish. You can enlist so many words under this heading. It's generator is a foolish person. Birbal Kumawat (talk) 02:35, 17 October 2019 (UTC)


 * This is not an article about grammar. Language is much more than grammar. Yes, there are many types of transition words and phrases but that does not invalidate this article. Note that the possessive pronoun "its" has no apostrophe, as it is not a genitive form. --bonadea contributions talk 06:33, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

To get a clarity of the topic
Dear Sir, I want only to know the clarity of your topic. This whole topic covers the conjunctions, a few prepositions and adverbial element of the clause. For example you call but, not only ....but also etc. as transition whereas traditionally these words have been called conjunction. What harm can our grammar have if we call these words by their traditionally sanctioned terms? And what does the word 'transition' mean. The real sense of this word doesn't suit to what you say. How these so-called transition words establish a cohesion between paragraphs whereas a paragraph is begun with none of these words. I hope you to answer me with the same readiness with which you see editing in this article. Thanks. Birbal Kumawat (talk) 16:01, 19 October 2019 (UTC)


 * If this were an article about parts of speech, you would of course be right, but it is not; the article does not discuss grammmar or syntax, but the cohesive elements of writing that are used to tie parts of a text together. These elements can be conjunctions but they can also be pronouns, or prepositions, or various other parts of speech. The grammatical classification of the transition words and phrases are of secondary importance (though the article could perhaps be developed with a discussion about that aspect). One possible comparison (which may or may not make sense) is how a noun can also be a subject or an object, without losing its status as a noun; that is of course a comparison within the realm of grammar, and again, the concept of transition words and phrases is not a grammatical feature of the language.  I am not quite sure what you mean by How these so-called transition words establish a cohesion between paragraphs whereas a paragraph is begun with none of these words but if you are interested in learning more about how they work, there are quite a lot of papers published on transition words, primarily in journals on applied linguistics and second language learning. Regards, --bonadea contributions talk 16:17, 19 October 2019 (UTC)