linking words speaking phrases

Starting
As a matter of fact
First of all
To begin with


I’d like to talk about…
I’ve chosen to talk about…
I’m going to talk about…
What I am going to cover is

Commenting
As a rule,
Essentially
Generally speaking
Actually
Evidently
Seemingly
Apparently
Naturally
Obviously…
Of course…
Certainly
Definetly
It goes without saying that…
It is clear that
As I have said before…
It’s quite likely that
It’s possible that

Adding information
Besides
Moreover
In addition to
Futhermore
Another point is that
What is more
not only … but also
Additionaly
Incidentally


Explaining
Most importantly, …
By … I mean…
That is to say…
What I mean is that
In other words
to be more precise



Expressing condition
If
Unless
Provided that
Whether
In case

Comparing

like /likewise
equally
as well as
just as
Similarly
Analogous to
corresponds to
akin to
related to
If you compare with
In the same way
At the same time
Neither nor
Either or
resemble

Contrasting ideas
However
Nevertheless/nonetheless
Notwithstanding
Although / even though
Despite
Otherwise
In spite of/ irrespective of the
fact that/ regardless
On the one hand, …on the
other hand
Unlike…
Whereas
In theory… , but in

practice…
Meanwhile
At the same time
In contrast
On the contrary
While this is true…


Expressing Purpose
in order that
so that
so as to
to


Giving your opinion
I think/I don’t really think…
I believe/I don’t believe…
Personally, I think…
In my opinion…
From my point of view
It seems to me that…
I suppose so
The first point I’d like to
make is that…
Frankly speaking,
Honestly,
I would say that
I doubt that
I feel

I imagine
I realize
It appears that
From my perspective

Emphasizing
especially
particularly
exactly because
The more…
Obviously
Undoubtedly/ There’s no
doubt that…
As a matter of fact/ In fact

Telling about cause and
result
On account of
Since
Because of
The main reason why…
One reason for this is
It is possibly due to
It may come from the fact
that
The immediate cause of this
This has resulted in
This has led to
One of the causes of this is
Due to this/ owing to

The reason for
For this reason,
So/therefore
Consequently
This is why
As a result
Hence
Thus
Expressing Partial Agreement
To some extent,
So to speak
In a way
More or less,
Almost,

Exemplifying
Let me give you an example.
Let me explain why I think that.
Consider …, for example.
Take … as one example of
In case of …
Another example of…
For instance…
… such as
Namely
Specifically
as an illustration
To demonstrate/ to illustrate
A good illustration of this is
If we take an example

Evidence for this is provided by
We can see this when

Giving an alternative viewpoint
I am not sure that I agree with…
Wel, I don’t think so really
Well, my point of view is rather different
To be honest, no, because
I am afraid I can’t agree with that idea,
because
I am afraid I think
Well I don’t know for sure, but…
I would say the opposite
Possibly, but …
I tend to believe…
Yes, in theory … but in practice …
I am not in favour of
I am unconvinced that…



Answering the 3
rd
part
I’m not an expert, but…
I read somewhere that…
It has many implications.
There’s a question mark over
It’s difficult to say because I…
I haven’t thought about it before, but it

seems to me plays an important role in…
That’s crucial.

Advantages
One definite plus is that
The great advantage is
One of the main arguments in favour of
…is …

Disadvantages
One problem is that
Another big disadvantage is…
A big minus is
One of the main arguments against …
is…

Balancing
Weighing everything up,
On balance,
taking everything into account,
If we look at both sides of the argument

Summarising
Finally,
All in all
On the whole
Summing up/ to sum up
In short/ to cut a long story short
In conclusion…/ to conclude
In brief

by and large
Last but not least
With this in mind
To put it in a nutshell