194  Transitions that emphqsize Type of information

Transitions can be used to add neutral, positive or negative information. Consider the sentence pairs in ?tbl-senpair1 and complete the following activity with your partner.

Transitions to combine different types of information.{#tbl-senpair1}
Initial Statement Additional Information
Our method … Shared power sources, advanced cloud computing avoids drawbacks of other methods (e.g. x and y).
Their study failed to take into account that levels of bureaucracy are not uniform throughout the same nation. Their study only considered level of bureaucracy in the national health system, not in local or national government in general.
Metallurgists study metals, how they can be extracted, and what properties they hold. Metallurgists investigate how the properties can be modified in order to produce allows.
Their conclusion regarding a lack of relationship between bureaucracy and complexity of language is erroneous because they only investigated two languages. The two languages are very similar — France and Spain are neighbouring countries with very similar languages.