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I find that my students are using a lot of these phrases at the beginning of their sentences: First... First of all... To begin with... All in all... The other reason is that... Above all... At l...
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terminology
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I find that my students are using a lot of these phrases at the beginning of their sentences: - First... - First of all... - To begin with... - All in all... - The other reason is that... - Above all... - At last but not least... - Taking all the reasons and examples into consideration... - In a word... Do these phrases have a common name? Is there a special term for such phrases when they do not add any meaning to the sentence they are added to?