Table 3.

Examples of linguistic cohesion

Category	Type	Example
Referential Cohesion	Pronomial	A boy called Peter saw a ghost. He was scared.
	Demonstrative	The boy was crying and then this boy called his mother.
	Comparative	I don’t like this story. I like the first one more.
Conjunction	Additive	The witch gets burned and that’s the end of the story.
	Adversative	I don’t know how, but he makes me be bad, bad, bad.
	Causal	I have nightmares because I ate too much candy before bed.
	Temporal	I’ll go play when I’m done eating.
Reference Patterns	Unclear	Uh, I went and looked at the guy to see what they were doing.
	Ambiguousp	And-and – and so when Halloween came her dad made a hat and then her mother made a witch costume and she was happy.

Note: Adapted from Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, volume 31, Caplan R, Guthrie D, Foy JG. Communication deficits and formal thought disorder in schizophrenic children, 151–159., copyright 1992, with permission from Elsevier.³⁶