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French essay transitions: carry one key term into the next paragraph

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Build French paragraph transitions that carry forward the previous key term and test its next limit instead of adding an unrelated connector.

In short

Repeat the relevant idea, then state the new question about it. After an access benefit, Cet accès élargi ne suffit pourtant pas à garantir la qualité de l’accueil carries accès forward and introduces the limit. A connector cannot connect two ideas that the text never relates.

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A key connects a cluster of small framed symbols to a second cluster.
A useful transition connects a point already established to the next condition or question. Illustration: Atelier

Your first paragraph argues that evening opening helps workers. The next tests staffing. A strong hinge does not restart with an unrelated fact about buildings. It names the gain already established and asks what condition makes it sustainable. This keeps the argument visible across the paragraph break.

Previous pointUseful hinge
Evening opening widens access.Cet accès élargi doit toutefois être confronté aux moyens d’accueil.
More hours may spread staff too thinly.Cette contrainte d’effectifs conduit à examiner un essai ciblé.
A trial supplies usage evidence.Ces observations ne deviennent utiles que si un critère de maintien est défini.

Carry the term into the next move

Tap the words in the right order. Tap a placed word to send it back.

  1. Carry forward widened access and introduce its resource condition.

  2. Carry forward the staffing constraint and move to the targeted trial.

  3. Carry forward trial observations and introduce the cost comparison.

  4. Carry forward the criterion and state its deciding role.

The repeated noun must remain faithful

Cette contrainte should recap the actual limit, such as staffing. Do not rename a modest inconvenience cette catastrophe unless the argument establishes that scale of harm. Likewise, toutefois marks a genuine reservation, while par conséquent presents a result. Choose the relation after you have identified the two propositions.

Question 1No account needed
Which transition follows an access-benefit paragraph towards staffing?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

Cet accès élargi dépend toutefois des moyens d’accueil.. The repeated access term links the old point to the resource condition.

Question 2No account needed
Can replacing de plus with or repair an unrelated next paragraph by itself?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

No, the underlying ideas must have a stated relation.. A connector signals a relationship; it cannot supply missing content.

Read the last sentence of one paragraph beside the first sentence of the next. The bridge should make the shift intelligible even before the next example appears. If it only announces “another point”, name what that point does to the earlier argument.

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