Discourse markers & connectors — The Courage to Be Refused
Grammar: Discourse markers and connectors
Free ESL grammar exercise on discourse markers & connectors themed around the courage to be refused. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on psychology, practising discourse markers and connectors. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
She had arrived at a diagnosis: her fear of other people's judgement was not protecting her from pain; instead, it was simply costing her a life. Declined occasionally, she was never mocked; even refusals arrived with encouragement.
Grammar: Discourse Markers
- Concessive contrast
- Use instead, rather than, or what X was Y to signal an unexpected result. What she received, rather than anger, was patience.
- Fronted participle
- Open a sentence with a past participle to compress a concession. Declined occasionally, she was never mocked. — note: no conjunction needed.
Sample items
- She expected ridicule. ______ she received was warmth.
- ______ having no justification, she asked if she could make her own coffee.
- The challenge did not build tolerance for humiliation; ______, it dismantled her assumptions.
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