Discuss the cohesive devices that structure the following piece of text interms of referential cohesion and conjunctive relations
... can also find this anaphoric reference in another example. The pronoun ¡§they¡¨ can be people or things. The pronoun ¡§they¡¨ in the sentence ¡§they have a lot of weekend activities to which parents are invited,¡¨ suggests the boarding schools. We can only understand by referring back to the previous part of this context ¡§Boarding schools are less strict now¡¨. Conjunctive relations are cohesive devices such as connectives that act as links between various elements in a piece of discourse. These connectives do not create meaningful sentences. There are additive, adversative, causative and temporal conjunctions. In the above article, we can find a lot of conjunctive relations. First, we can see some causative conjunctions ¡§so¡¨ in this article. In the first sentence ¡§so usually I am awake by about 6:30a.m.¡¨ tell us the cause of waking up because it¡¦s always important for me to get some exercise in the morning. Another example is in ¡§ My wife doesn¡¦t wake up that early, so I usually just whip up a light breakfast of fruit ¡K¡¨ Second, we can see that ¡§if¡¨ creates a condition and the possible result I will do. Third, we can find another example ¡§I¡¦ll spend about 30 minutes either in the pool or on the cycling machine,¡¦ the device is ¡§or¡¨ gives a signal that a different activity can be made. Furthermore, we can see the adversative conjunction ¡§although¡¨ in the sentence ¡§ although generally I prefer swi...