Linking words and phrases Listing First(ly), second(ly), third(ly), last Furthermore, Finally, To begin with, To start with, To conclude Again Another Above all Last but not least First and foremost First and most importantly In addition (to) Next Respectively Moreover Similarly, Likewise Besides, Alternative On the other hand Alternatively Rather However Nonetheless Nevertheless Still Besides Reinforcement Also Above all Actually Again As well (as) Especially Furthermore Moreover Further Too
With emphasis on What is more In particular Particularly Specifically Indeed, Importantly, In addition Additionally Besides In the same way Not only… but also… Examples For example For instance In particular, As an illustration, To illustrate Such as To demonstrate Specifically, As follows: That is In this case Namely In other words Contrast Instead Conversely By contrast In reality In fact On the contrary In contrast In comparison Yet Nevertheless Except Even though However Although In the one hand… on the other hand
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Despite Nonetheless Notwithstanding Meanwhile Contradictorily Whereas Whether or not Generalising In general Generally On the whole As a rule In most cases Usually Generally speaking Ordinarily As usual For the most part Concession However Even though However much Nevertheless Still Yet Admittedly Granted Naturally Albeit Although It is conceded Certainly Stating the obvious Obviously Clearly Naturally Of course As can be expected Surely After all Particularly
Especially Mainly Deduction Then In that case In other words Otherwise It implies that If so/not
That is to say Rather Again On the other hand Better / worse still Result
In conclusion To conclude Concluding In brief To sum up To summarise Overall In essence In summary Altogether In short
Accordingly As a consequence As a result Consequently Therefore Thereby Because of this Thus It follows Hence For this/that reason So that In that case Under these circumstances Ergo X supports Y
Comparison
Exception
Also As well (as) Both… and … By comparison Analogously Equally Likewise Similarly In comparison Correspondingly In the same way By the same token
Aside from Barring Besides Except Excluding With the exception of Exclusive of Other than Outside of Save
Reformulate
Shortly Subsequently Currently In the past Meanwhile Formerly
Summary
In other words To put it more simply Put differently Namely
Time
Eventually Presently Previously Since Recently Until now Whenever Transition With reference to Referring to Regarding Turning to With respect to With regard to Reporting Suggest(s) that Argue(s) that According to Outline(s) Focus(es) on Define(s) Conclude(s) that State(s) Maintain(s) that Found (that) Promote(s) Establish(ed) by/that Assert(s) that Claim(s) that Report(s) that Address(es) Show(s) that Uncategorised Assuming (that) Owing to Due to If (then) Though Whilst Given that In the event of