Cohesion refers to which of the following?

Cohesion refers to which of the following?

• A. Cohesion
• B. Adverbial
• C. Appraisal
• D. Lexical field

Answer: (A)

Cohesion is the ties that hold a text together, created by linking devices that connect sentences and ideas. This includes reference (uses pronouns or demonstratives to point to earlier information), substitution (replacing a word with another term), ellipsis (omitting words that are understood from context), conjunctions (and, but, because, etc.), and lexical cohesion (repetition, synonyms, or related terms that create a sense of relatedness).

An adverbial, on the other hand, is a word or phrase that modifies a verb, sentence, or clause to give information about time, place, manner, or degree. It contributes to meaning, but not to the structural linking of the text itself. Appraisal concerns expressing attitudes or judgments toward someone or something, i.e., stance, rather than how sentences are connected. A lexical field is a group of related terms within a domain that helps with topic vocabulary, not the mechanisms that knit the text together.

So, cohesion specifically describes the devices that knit sentences into a coherent whole. For example, using a pronoun to refer back to a noun mentioned earlier helps readers track who or what is being talked about, which strengthens the text’s unity.