USEFUL EXPRESSIONS

CONTRASTING IDEAS:
On the one hand….
On the other hand…
Whereas…
While…
Although…
However…
Nevertheless…
Nonetheless…
By contrast…
In contrast to…
Contrary to…
ADDING SIMILAR IDEAS:
What is more…
Equally…
Another reason is…
Similarly…
Likewise…
Also…
In the same way…
INTRODUCING YOUR OPINION:
In my opinion…
To my mind…
It seems to me that…
GIVING EXAMPLES:
For example…
For instance…
Such as…
SEQUENCING:
Firstly…
Secondly…
To start with…
TALKING ABOUT SIMILARITIES:
Both photos show…
In both photos we can see…
They are similar in that they both show…
TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENCES:
Whereas in the second photo…
While in the first photo…
Unlike the first photo…
LANGUAGE OF COMPARISON:
…more than…
…less than…
…as…as…
LANGUAGE OF SPECULATION:
They seem to be…
They are probably…
Perhaps/Possibly/Maybe they’re …
They could/might/may be…
They must be/can’t be…
This person looks as if she’s/he’s …
It looks like…
It appears…
It seems like…
I guess…
I imagine…
I suppose…
GETTING OUT OF DIFFICULTIES:
When you can’t think of the word:
I can’t think of the word, but it’s a kind of…
I’m not sure how to say it, but it’s used for…
What’s the word?