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Connectors

Meaning Sentence connectors Subordinates Phrases linkers


Additional info Moreover With
Besides
In addition/ Additionally
Furthermore
As well as
Apart from this/that
Also
What is more
On top of that
Result/effect Conclusively Thereby Leading to
In conclusion
Inevitably
For this
Consequently
As a consequence
As a result
Therefore
So/that is why/because
of this
Hence
With this in mind
On account of the fact
that
Bearing this is mind
Taking this into account
Thus
Cause Thanks to Because Because of
Following Since As a result of
As Due to/owning to
On account of
By virtue of
In view of
In the light of
In the face of
For fear of
For the simple reason
that
Given that
Caused by/brought
about to
Continuation of In this context With
explanation In this connection
In this respect
In this perspective
Here
Comparison Likewise As Like
Similarly Than Similar to
In the same way Rather than
Wether
Aas much as
Whereas
Condition If If
Only if
Unless
Provided that
Assuming that
Contrast in However Although Despite
expectation Nevertheless Even though Despite of
Concession Yet Though In spite of
Still Despite the fact But
On the contrary But
Unfortunately As though
Originally
Surprisingly
Ideally
Apparently
Contrast in On the other hand While Unlike
comparison In/by contrast Whereas
Conversely
As opposed to
On the contrary
Contrast in action Instead Instead of
Emphasis In fact
Indeed
As a matter of fact
That is
Essentially
Interestingly
Fortunately
Inevitably
Confirmation Typically In accordance with
Usually Confirms
Traditionally
Normally
Naturally
Clearly
Clarification/ In the other words Summing up i.e.
Paraphrase That is
To sum up
In summary
That is/that is to say
Generalization In general
Generally
Generally speaking
In a broader context
In a broader perspective
Condition In that case If
Otherwise Provided that
Now When
Given While
Until
As long as
Now that
Once that/once
Without condition Regardless Even though Regardless
Despite Despite of
Qualification At least
Ordering, First of all
beginning
First, second, … Before Before
Ordering Firstly, secondly, … After After
Then
Next
Now
Continuing
Further
Finally
Place Where
Wherever
Time Meanwhile/ while After
In the meanwhile As soon as
Prior to Until
Before reaching that Whenever
stage/after that stage Now that
Prior to
Subsequently
Whenever
As soon as
Until/till
Now that
Since
For
All of a sudden/
suddenly
Reintroduction Regarding
For
In connection with
Focusing on
With respect to
Example For example Exemplified by Like
For instance Illustrated by Such as
As shown by Shown by e.g.
As exemplified by Be it
As illustrated by
One such example is
Let me exemplify this
concept by/with
One instance could be
Purpose So that/ in order that
In order to
Specialization In particular
Particularly
Specifically
Main reason

Useful expressions
To present a It is often said/asserted/claimed that
topic It is universally acknowledged that
It is a well-known fact that
For the great majority of people
A problem that is often debated nowadays is that of
One of the most striking features/aspects of this problem/issue
A number of key issues arise from
First of all, let us try to understand/consider
By way of introduction
What we are mainly concerned with here is
Sequence of This brings up to the question of whether
ideas in a On the one hand, on the other
paragraph As for
Incidentally
We must no forger
As far as… is concerned…
Added to that
To present a In short
summary All in all
Consequently
So/thus
To sum up
Overall
Briefly/in brief
In other words
Conclusion To sum up
In summary
In conclusion,
On the whole,

Relative Who
pronouns Whoever
Whom
Whoever
Whose

Relative That
adjectives Whatever
Which - whichever

Coordinating For
conjunctions And
Nor
But
Or
Yet
So

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