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Some useful sentence openers TO ADD AN IDEA

In Addition Another reason/ aspect/ example Furthermore Moreover

TO INTRODUCE A CONTRAST

Compare this with In contrast However In spite of Although

TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE

For example An example of this is A further instance of this is

TO POINT TO EVIDENCE

It can be seen that The evidence is that In support of this

TO MAKE A TENTATIVE STATEMENT

Studies suggest that erhaps It would seem that In tends to be the case that

TO INTRODUCE A RESULT

Accordingl! As a conse"uence As a result In view of the above

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TO INTRODUCE A LOGICAL CONCLUSION

Thus Therefore It could be concluded that Conse"uentl!

TO CONCLUDE

In conclusion To sum up aragraph lin#age

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