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Starting Expressing condition Giving your opinion

As a matter of fact If I think/ I don’t really think …
First of all Unless I believe / I don’t believe …
To begin with Provided Personally, I think …
Whether In my opinion …
in case From my point of view
I'd like to talk about… It seems to me that…
I've chosen to talk about… Comparing I suppose so
I'm going to talk about… like / likewise The first point I'd like to
What I am going to cover is… equally Make is that …
As well as Frankly speaking
Commenting Just as Honestly,
As a rule, Similarly I would say that
Essentially Analogous to I doubt that
Generally speaking Akin to I feel
Actually Related to I imagine
Evidently If you compare.. with I realize
Seemingly In the same way It appears that
Apparently At the same time From my perspective
Naturally Neither .. nor
Obviously… Either .. or Emphasizing
Of course… Resemble Especially
Certainly Particularly
Definitely Contrasting ideas Exactly because
It goes without saying that… However The more…
It is clear that Nevertheless / nonetheless Obviously
As I have said before… Notwithstanding Undoubtedly / there's no doubt that…
It's quite likely that Although / even though As a matter of face / in face
It's possible that Despite
Otherwise Telling about cause and result
In spite of / irrespective of the On account of
Adding information Fact that / regardless Since
Besides On the one hand, … on the other hand Because of
Moreover Unlike… The main reason why …
In addition to Whereas .. One reason for this is
Furthermore In theory …, bit in practice… It is possibly due to
Another point is that… Meanwhile It may come from the fact that
What is more… At the same time The immediate cause of this
not only …. But also In contrast This has resulted in
Additionally On the contrary This has led to
Incidentally While this is true … One of the causes of this is
Due to this / owing to
Explaining Expressing Purpose The reason for
Most importantly, … In order that For this reason
By … I mean… So that So / therefore
That is to say… So as to Consequently
What I mean is that… To This is why
In other words As a result
to be more precise Hence
Thus

Expressing Partial Agreement Expressing Partial Agreement

To some extent I'm not an expert, but…
So to speak I read somewhere that…
In a way It has many implications.
More or less There's a question mark over...
Almost I haven’t thought about it before, but it seems
to me… plays an important role in…

Exemplifying
Advantages
Let me give you an example
One definite plus s that
Let me explain why I think that
The great advantage is
Consider … for example
Take … as one example of One of the main arguments in favor of … is …
In case of …
Another example of
For instance Disadvantages
…. Such as … One problem is that…
Namely Another big disadvantage is …
Specifically A big minus is …
As an illustration One of the main arguments against ….
To demonstrate / to illustrate Is ….
A good illustration of this is
If we take an example
Evidence for this is provided by Balancing
We can see this when Weighing everything up
On balance
Taking everything into account
Giving an alternative viewpoint If we look at both sides of the argument
I am not sure that I agree with ….
Well, I don’t think so really
Well, my point of view is rather different Summarizing
To be honest, no, because Finally
I am afraid I can't agree with that idea, because All in all
I am afraid I think One the whole
Well I don't know for sure, but …. Summing up / to sum up
I would say the opposite In short / to cut a long story short
Possibly, but … In conclusion … / to conclude
I tend to believe In brief ….
Yes, in theory…. But in practice By and large
I am not in favor of Last but not least
I am unconvinced that … With this in mind
To put it in a nutshell
All things considered