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Essential Linking and Transition Words

The document lists and defines various linking or transition words used to connect ideas between sentences and paragraphs. It categorizes the words into groups such as reformulating, emphasizing, summing up, concluding, introducing facts, deducing consequences, contrasting, adding ideas, choice, temporal, explaining causes, concessions, and goals or purposes. In total, it provides over 50 transition words across multiple categories to facilitate coherent writing.

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Essential Linking and Transition Words

The document lists and defines various linking or transition words used to connect ideas between sentences and paragraphs. It categorizes the words into groups such as reformulating, emphasizing, summing up, concluding, introducing facts, deducing consequences, contrasting, adding ideas, choice, temporal, explaining causes, concessions, and goals or purposes. In total, it provides over 50 transition words across multiple categories to facilitate coherent writing.

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  • Linking or Transition Words Guide

LINKING OR TRANSITION WORDS

Reformulating emphasizing Summing up Concluding Introducing facts Condition

Namely As a matter of fact In a nutshell Last but not least First If


In other words Indeed All things considered As a conclusion To begin with Unless
That is to say In fact To sum up Finally Provided that
To put things differently To conclude whether

Deducing Introducing
Temporal Contrasting Adding ideas Choice
consequence example

After As a consequence But Also Neither…nor Either… For example


Afterwards Therefore as opposed to Besides or For instance
As As a result However Furthermore Or Such as
As soon as Consequently Nevertheless In addition
Next Eventually Yet Moreover Whatever
Suddenly Thus Unlike Whenever
Then So while What’s more
Since That’s why Whereas Not only…but also Wherever
On the one hand
On the other hand Whoever

Personal opinio Concession Goal / purpose


Explaining cause

In my opinion As Although In order to


As far as I’m concerned Because (of) Even though To
To my mind In so far as Though So as to
It seems to me that… Since So that
The reason why …is

LINKING OR TRANSITION WORDS

Reformulating emphasizing Summing up Concluding Introducing facts Condition

Namely As a matter of fact In a nutshell Last but not least First If


In other words Indeed All things considered As a conclusion To begin with Unless
That is to say In fact To sum up Finally Provided that
To put things differently To conclude whether

Deducing Introducing
Temporal Contrasting Adding ideas Choice
consequence example

After As a consequence But Also Neither…nor Either… For example


Afterwards Therefore as opposed to Besides or For instance
As As a result However Furthermore Or Such as
As soon as Consequently Nevertheless In addition
Next Eventually Yet Moreover Whatever
Suddenly Thus Unlike Whenever
Then So while What’s more
Since That’s why Whereas Not only…but also Wherever
On the one hand
On the other hand Whoever

Personal opinio Explaining cause Concession Goal / purpose

In my opinion As Although In order to


As far as I’m concerned Because (of) Even though To
To my mind In so far as Though So as to
It seems to me that… Since So that
The reason why …is

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