LINKING WORDS
General statement of the problem / current situation.
It is true…
Some people say/ believe…
Other people however, disagree/ have a different point of view…
Points for
Firstly … Besides…
To begin with … Furthermore…
Secondly… For example…
Moreover… For instance…
Points against
By contrast… In fact…
Whereas… On the one hand…/ on the other hand…
Sadly… Unfortunately…
Conclusion/ coming to some decision
As a result… In conclusion…
Finally… To summarize…
To sum up…
Connectives
First, second, etc. After a while Meanwhile
Soon At last In the meantime
Then Finally At the same time
Next Eventually On the one hand
Later Afterwards On the other hand
Some time later As a result However
Because of this Despite this Luckily
Naturally
Linking words
Although/ though Even though Because/ because of
Before But If
Just as So So that
That Until When
Which While Who
As long as As soon as By the time
In case Just as Where
Unless As if
To add To compare
And Whereas
Again But
And then Yet
Besides On the other hand
Equally important However
Finally Nevertheless
Further On the contrary
Furthermore By comparison
Nor Where
Too Compared to
Next Up against
Lastly Balanced against
What’s more Vis a vis
Moreover Although
In addition Conversely
First (second, etc.) Meanwhile
In the first place After all
To start/ begin with In contrast
Although this may be true
To prove To show exception
Because Yet
For Still
Since However
For the same reason Nevertheless
Obviously In spite of
Evidently Despite
Furthermore Of course
Moreover Once in a while
Besides Sometimes
Indeed
In fact
In addition
In any case
That is
To repeat
In brief As I have said
As I have noted As has been noted
To show time To summarize or conclude
Immediately In brief
Thereafter On the whole
Soon Summing up
After a few hours To conclude/ finally/ lastly
Finally In conclusion
Then As I have shown
Later As I have said
Previously Hence
Formerly Therefore
First (second, etc.) Accordingly
Next Thus
And then As a result
Consequently
On the whole
To sum up
It’s up to you to decide
All in all / all things considered
Taking everything into account/
consideration
To emphasize To show sequence
Definitely First, second, third and so forth
Extremely A, B, C, and so forth
Obviously Next
In fact Then
Indeed Following this
In any case At this time
Absolutely Now
Positively At this point
Naturally After
Surprisingly Afterwards
Always Subsequently
Forever Finally
Perennially Consequently
Eternally Previously
Never Before this
Emphatically Simultaneously
Unquestionably Concurrently
Without a doubt Thus
Certainly Therefore
Undeniably Hence
Without reservation Next
Unfortunately And then
Soon
To begin with
To give an example/ reason/ result
For example For instance
In this case In another case
On this occasion In this situation
Take the case of To demonstrate
To illustrate As an illustration/ as a result
In particular Such as
Like For this reason
Because As
Since
To give an opinion
It is true I believe
In fact Personally
To show contrast
On the other hand However
Still But
Nevertheless Nonetheless
Although Even though
Despite/ in spite
To introduce or list advantages
The main/ first/ most important advantage of …
One/ another/ an additional advantage of …
One point of view in favour of …
It’s often suggested/ believed/ argued that …
Some/ many people suggest/ feel/ argue that …
Some/ many people are in favour of/ are convinced that
To introduce or list disadvantages
The main/ most important disadvantage/ drawback of …
One point/ argument against …
Some/ many people are against …