Welcome to the English Transitional Words Database (ETWD). Transitional words link ideas, sentences and paragraphs, providing coherence and unity to the text. You will be able to find classified transitional words by category.  Each category was created based on the functionality that takes in the process of constructing arguments. Transitional words can be either verbs, conjunctions, adverbs or prepositional phrases that intend to have an effect in the direction of the rhetorical objective; they provide a logical flow to the composition that makes it coherent.  Transitional words establish different relationships among ideas/objects and can be placed in many places in  a text, for example: between paragraphs, between sentences, within and between the parts of a sentence. See categories!