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Linking and Introductory Words and Phrases

Introducing / Giving Examples:
For example, such as in the case of As for Such like One example is Suchas For instance, Another

Building up Argument/Adding Points/Further exposition:

In the first place,/In the second, (etc). To start with Firstly,/Secondly, (etc). First of all, Lastly, Last but not least, Above all, In some cases,/In others,/In still others, To carry the argument still further, The problem stems from the fact that What makes it worse is Subsequently, After all, Clearly, One thing is very clear, It is clear that The fact is that In fact, We should not overlook the fact that There is little doubt that If + conditional clauses. Relative clauses + who/which/whose,(etc). As a general statement, As far as is/are concerned, In effect, Even if Except for Certainly, In the main, On the whole, Apart from Apart from that, As well as, According to In the end, In the long run, In theory, In practice, In reality, In some respects, In essence, In the short term, In due course, In time, In that case Surely also/too up to a point The morethe more In general terms, At first sight, For the most part, Even then, Except Evidently Naturally

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Curiously, On balance, In future, (Un)fortunately, Logically, Until recently, At a time when

Comparing:
Just as,so Both and It is not, nor is it Neithernor In the same way, Like

Contrasting:
In one sense, In other, however, On the one hand, On the other, Even though In spite of/In spite of the fact that While On the contrary, Nevertheless, Even so, In some cases, In others, however, Instead of But On the other hand, Although Though Despite Despite the fact, Whereas However, Yet, All the same, Unlike

Reasons/Explanations:
The reason for/why As a result, As a consequence, Because / Because of Obviously, Inevitably, One reason is that/Another In short, For this reason, Consequently, Since/As Therefore, Thanks to Thus, In other words,

Appealing to Reason:
In the name of reason? In the name of common sense? For if,then?

Taken from: The Anglo,1987.