This is a valid part of a sentence in written English.
It is used to describe cause and effect. For example, "The floods were connected causing massive devastation in the area."
Sometimes I need to hold out a protective arm to keep a sneaky hip check or punch from connecting, causing Eve to give me that look of utter dismay that says, "Why?
We connect cause and effect.
This approach filters out statistical noise; it connects cause and effect.
It's a device neatly matching Benjy's inability to connect cause and effect, even when the cause is himself.
There are other statistical ways to connect cause and effect, but none so transparent, in Duflo's view, or so adept at upsetting expectations.
While we can't empirically connect cause and effect, the Danish policy of rehabilitating jihadists who have come back from fighting with Isis in their so-called caliphate was followed by a significant cut in the number of people leaving the country to join the group.
The remaining 229 vertices have degree 1 to 4. All paths connecting cause-effect pairs pass through the central vertex.
Genetic studies are regarded as revealing the mechanism connecting cause and effect, from a knowledge of which the workings of the machine can be deduced and the course of evolutionary change inferred.
"Because the advertising industry force feeds our desires for products created from fossil fuels, they are intimately connected to causing climate change".
"One weak link in a variety of sites that are all connected could cause a much wider problem.
