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DID YOU KNOW?

Conjunctive adverbs are the glue of high-scoring IELTS and TOEFL essays — but only when used correctly.

Words like however, therefore, consequently, and nevertheless signal logical relationships between ideas and directly boost your Coherence & Cohesion score in IELTS. But they’re not interchangeable: writing I was tired; moreover, I went to bed early is wrong — moreover adds information, not a result.

TOEFL integrated writing tasks also reward precise connective language, and Cambridge Use of English (Part 4 — key word transformations) frequently tests whether you can substitute one connective structure for another. Choosing the right conjunctive adverb is a mark of a writer who controls meaning, not just grammar.