This document lists and groups linking expressions used to structure writing by meaning, including expressions to introduce ideas, provide examples, add information, show the order of ideas, compare, contrast, emphasize, give cause and effect, introduce evidence, summarize, and conclude.
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1. Linking expressions grouped by meaning
Introduce an idea
First,
First of all,
Initially,
At the outset,
In the first place,
From the beginning
To begin with
The first thing that must be considered is
Introduce examples
For example,
For instance,
As an example,
There are several examples
An illustration of this is
To exemplify this
A further example is
It will be helpful to look at an example at this stage.
Add information
Further,
Moreover,
Additionally,
Whats more,
Also,
In addition to this,
And thats not all.
Show the order of ideas
Firstly,
Secondly,
Thirdly,
Lastly,
Finally,
Next,
Concurrently,
At the same time,
Beforehand,
Prior to that,
Previously,
Eventually,
At some point in the future,
The next issue that needs to be considered is
Compare
Similarly,
Accordingly,
Comparable with this,
In keeping with this,
2. Contrast
In fact,
Nevertheless,
Yet,
Conversely,
In spite of this,
On the one hand,
On the other hand,
Emphasise
Again,
Indeed,
For this reason,
Truly,
In fact,
Certainly,
Clearly,
Without a doubt,
It cannot be emphasised enough that
Give cause and effect
expressions put before the cause
o Since,
o Because of
o Due to
o Ifthen
o As a result of
expressions put before the effect
o This results in
o Consequently,
o Accordingly,
o For this reason,
o Therefore,
o This leads to,
o As might be expected,
Introduce evidence
To substantiate this,
To support this idea,
Evidence of this is given by
Summarise
In summary,
To summarise,
For the reasons above
In other words,
In brief,
In short,
Conclude
In conclusion,
To conclude,
Finally,
It is evident that
From all of the evidence given above, it is clear that