APPENDIX 2: LINKING WORDS

APPENDIX 2

LINKING WORDS

Personal opinion:

In my opinion, / In my view, / To my mind, / To my way of thinking, / Personally I believe that / It strikes me that / I feel very strongly that / I am inclined to believe that / It seems to me that / As far as I am concerned, / I think that

To list advantages and disadvantages:

One advantage of / Another advantage of / One other advantage of / A further advantage of / The main advantage of / The greatest advantage of / The first advantage of

One disadvantage of / Another disadvantage of / One other disadvantage of / A further disadvantage of / The main disadvantage of / The greatest disadvantage of / The first disadvantage of

To list points:

Firstly, / First of all, / In the first place, / Secondly, / Thirdly, / Finally, / To start with

To list points in a specific sequence:

BEGINNING - First, / To start with, / To begin with, / First of all

CONTINUING - Secondly, / After this/that, / Afterwards, / Then, / Next CONCLUDING - Finally, / Lastly, / Last but not least

To add more points on the same topic:

What is more, / Furthermore, / Apart from this/that, / In addition (to this), / Moreover, / Besides (this), / … not to mention the fact that

To refer to other sources:

With reference to / According to/ regarding / concerning / with respect / regard / reference to / in regard / reference to

To express cause:

because /owing to the fact that / due to the fact that / on the grounds that / since / as

In view of / Because of / Owing to

Tor this reason/that is why

To express effect:

Thus, / therefore, / so / consequently, / as a result, / as a consequence, / for this reason.

To express purpose:

For fear (that); so that ; so as to / in order to

To emphasise what you say:

Clearly, / Obviously, / Of course, / Needless to say

To express reality:

It is a fact that / In effect, / In fact, / As a matter of fact, / The fact of the matter is (that) / Actually, / In practice, / Indeed, / To tell you the truth

To express the difference between appearance and reality:

Initially, / At first, / At first sight

To give examples:

For instance, / For example, such as / like

To make general statements:

As a general rule, / Generally, / In general, / On the whole

To make partially correct statements:

Up to a point, / To a certain extent, / To some extent, / In a sense, / In a way

To express limit of knowledge:

To the best of my knowledge, / As far as I know

To state other people's opinion:

It is popularly believed that / People often claim that /It is often alleged that / Some people argue that / Many argue that / A lot of people think that / A lot of people believe that

To make contrasting points:

Yet / however, / nevertheless, / but / at the same time / even so, / still, / nonetheless

Although / Even though / Regardless of the fact that / In spite of the fact that / Despite the fact that / While

To express balance (the other side of the argument):

however, / but / on the other hand, / although / yet, / at the same time, / in contrast

Negative addition:

Neither …. nor

To express exception:

but / apart from / except (for)

To clarify/rephrase:

In other words, / That is to say, / To put it another way

To express similarity:

Similarly, / likewise, / in the same way

To give an alternative:

 Either….. or; On the other hand, /Alternatively

To express condition:

On the condition that / provided (that) / providing (that) / only if / as long as / In the event of / in case of / whether (or not) / otherwise/or (else)

To express the consequence of a condition:

Consequently, / then / so / in which case, /if so, / otherwise

To express comparison:

as …. as / more … than / twice as … as / less … than

To conclude:

Finally, / Lastly, /Above all, /All in all, /Taking everything into account, /On the whole, /All things considered, / In conclusion, /As I have said, /As was previously stated, /To sum up

Relatives:

Who/that / whose / which/that / where /whom

Summarising:

In short / Briefly / To put it briefly