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Phrasal/clausal

(*particularly frequent in informal spoken contexts)

Don’t get too excited! This could come to nothing. 

On the other hand, it might

work.

Inference (then, in that case)

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Inference linking adjuncts indicate that the speaker/writer infers or concludes

something in the second text segment, based on the evidence of the first text

segment. These include:

Single-word

otherwise

then*

(*particularly frequent in informal spoken contexts)

[at a travel agent’s; A is the assistant]

A: [showing a brochure] Perhaps I could give you this actually. There’s some

suggestions for destinations. 

B: Oh right. 

A: And so to go out via Taipei. Out to Tokyo. And then back via Bangkok. And

Delhi as well by the looks of it. 

B: Yes. Oh right. Can I take this brochure then? 

A: Oh, certainly yes. 

Phrasal

in that case

If we try to imagine what’s the worst possible accident we can imagine, right, it

would be if all of this store of gas got released, you know, for whatever reason,

if everything went wrong and the whole lot got out. Now 

in that case we’d end

up with a much bigger cloud of gas that would travel further before it got

completely blown away, right, and couldn’t affect anybody.