LINKING WORDS

Describing similarities Despite/in spite of

Likewise While (not whilst!)
Correspondingly Even so
Equally On the contrary
Not only… but also Nevertheless
In the same way Nonetheless
Similarly Although
Showing cause and effect Admittedly
Consequently Emphasis, addition or examples

As a result To illustrate
Thus To clarify
Hence (never ‘hence why’) Further (not ‘furthermore’)

Since (try to avoid ‘as’ when showing cause and First, second and third (not firstly, secondly and
effect) thirdly)
Because For instance
Therefore Moreover
Accordingly Typically
This suggests that Especially
It follows that In fact
For this reason Namely
Comparing and contrasting In addition
Alternatively Concluding

However To summarise
Conversely It can be concluded that
On the other hand As can be seen
Instead Ultimately
Yet Given the above
On the contrary As described
Showing limitation or contradiction Finally