Discourse marker - Definition and Examples of Discourse Markers

What I need to do is milk is the yak.

One should keep in mind that some verbs can be transitive or intransitive, with different meanings, e.

The intransitive verbs that can be used with this are verbs whose meanings have to do with existence exist, live, occur, appear, happen, prevail, remain and change of state disappear, vanish, arrive, die, come, arise.

The more common connectors and, so, but, or actually provide relatively weak foregrounding, while many others have more specific meanings and provide stronger foregrounding.

The elements connected by discourse markers are diverse.

As a result- The guest arrived late.