Linking Words/ Phrases

To state personal opinion: In my opinion, / In my view, / To my mind, / (Personally) I

believe that, / I feel (very) strongly that, / To my way of
thinking, / I am convinced that, / It seems to me that, / I think
that, / It is my firm belief that, / It strikes me that, / As far as
I am concerned, / I am inclined to believe that.
To list advantages and One (dis)advantage of, / Another (dis)advantage of, / The
disadvantages: main (dis)advantage of, / The greatest (dis)advantage of, /
The first (dis)advantage of.
To list points: First(ly), / First of all, / In the first place, / To start/begin
with, / To begin with, / Secondly, / Thirdly, / Finally, / Lastly,
/ Last but not least, / Then , / Next, / After this, / Afterwards.
To add more points to the What is more, / Furthermore, / Apart from this/that, / In
same topic: addition to this, / Moreover, / Besides, … not to mention the
fact that, / Not only, / But, / Also.
To express cause: Because, / In view of, / Since, / Due to the fact, / Therefore, /
For this reason, / As, / Owing to the fact that, / On the
grounds that.
To refer to other sources: With reference to, / According to, /
To show Therefore, / So, / Consequently, / As a consequence, / As a
effect/result/consequences: result, / For this reason, / If not, otherwise, / In which case, /
Thus.
To express purposes: So that, / In order to, / With the purpose/intention to, / In
case, / So as to.
To give examples: For instance, / For example, / Such as, / Particularly, / In
particular, / Especially, / Like.
To make general statements: As a general rule, / By and large, / Generally, / In general, /
On the whole.
To make partially correct Up to a point, / To a certain extent(degree), / To some
statements: extent(degree), / In a sense, / In a way, / To a limited extent.
To make contrasting points: However, / Nonetheless, / Nevertheless, / Yet, / But, / Even
so, /Even though, / Regardless of the fact that, / In spite of the
fact that, / Despite the fact that, Although.
To express reality: In fact, / It is a fact that, / In effect, / As a matter of fact, /
The fact of the matter is (that), / Actually, / In practice, /
Indeed.
To emphasize a point: Indeed, / Naturally, / Clearly, / Obviously, / Of course, /
Needless to say.
To express limit of To the best of my knowledge, / As far as I know.
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To state other people’s It is popularly believed that, / People often claim that, / It is
opinion: often alleged that, / Some people argue that, / Many argue
that, / Most people feel that, / Some people point out that, /
Contrary to the popular belief.
To clarify, rephrase: In other words, / That is to say, / To put it another way.
To express similarity: Similarly, / Likewise, / In the same way.
To express condition: On the condition that, / Provided that, / Providing that, /
Only if, / In the event of, / As long as, / In case.
To express an alternative: Either, / On the other hand, Alternatively.
To conclude: Finally, / Lastly, / All in all, / Taking everything into account
(consideration), / To sum up, / All things considered, /On the
whole, / In conclusion, / On balance, / For the above
mentioned reasons, / Therefore I feel that.
To summarise: In short, / Briefly, / To put it briefly.