in other words
fixed phr..fixed phr.. you use this to explain something again in a simpler or different way to make it clearer.
fixed phr.. a discourse marker used to introduce a paraphrase or a clarification of a preceding statement.
He is very busy; in other words, he cannot come.
The company is downsizing, in other words, many people are going to lose their jobs.
The results were statistically insignificant; in other words, the experiment failed to prove the hypothesis that the team had spent months developing.
usually placed at the beginning of a sentence or clause to clarify the previous point.
teach this as a 'reformulation marker' to help students improve their cohesion in writing and speaking tasks.
in another wordsin other wordsthe phrase is fixed with the plural 'words', so 'another' cannot be used.