68 cohesion in a text are through the use of pro-forms that indicate co-reference, definite articles, ellipsis,
repetition, connectives or conjunctions, substitution and so forth. In the next two units we shall examine these.
4.0 Conclusion A collection of sentences that are well connected are said to be cohesive and coherent.
Textuality is a property of such collection because it is what shows that what we have is not just a
random collection of sentences, but a well-connected piece. Cohesion and coherence are the two technical terms used to describe the connectedness of sentences and ideas in a text. Cohesion is signaled by the use of certain items that cannot be decoded without recourse to what had gone before them.
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