LINKING OR TRANSITION WORDS CHART

Introducing
Emphasizing Reformulating Summing up Concluding Condition
ideas and facts

As a matter of fact That is to say In short Last but not least First of all If
In fact In other words All things considered As a conclusion First / Firstly Unless
Indeed Namely To sum up To conclude To begin with Provided that
To put things differently In a nutshell Finally Imagine / Suppose
Whether
As long as
Consequence Temporal Contrast Adding ideas Choice Introducing example

As a result After (sth) But Also Neither…nor For example

Therefore Afterwards However Moreover Either…or For instance
As a consequence As Nevertheless Furthermore Or Such as /like
Consequently As soon as Yet In addition Whatever
Eventually Since as opposed to Besides Whenever
So Then unlike What’s more Wherever
Thus Next whereas Not only…but Whoever
That’s why Suddenly While also (but as well)
Instead of + (Ving /N..)
On the one hand .....
On the other hand

Opinion Explaining cause Concession Purpose

In my opinion As Although /Though In order to

As far as I’m concerned Because + sentence Even though To
To my mind = In my opinion Because of + N /Pr Despite/In spite of So as to
It seems to me that… In so far as Apart from/except for So that
To my mind Since But for
The reason why …is