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Summative (overall, in short)

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Summative linking adjuncts indicate that the second text segment represents a

summary or summing-up of the first. These include:

Single-word

altogether

overall

so

then

therefore

thus

after all

all the same

at any rate

at the same time

for all that

in any case

in any event

in spite of that

mind you*

of course

on the other hand

that said

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[speakers talking about how they spent their holiday]

A: And I mean that was second-hand the bike that I bought for Jenny because I

couldn’t see the point in spending for a brand new one when she’s going to

have outgrown it, you know, in a little while anyway. And she doesn’t go out

that much anyway. 

B: So overall you’d say you had a fairly happy holiday this year? 

A: Oh yeah. Yeah. 

C: Yeah we enjoyed it. Yeah.

Phrasal/clausal

[beginning of final paragraph in a book review]

In sum, this is a good book to have in your reference library – providing you

have other sources of information on which to draw.