Transitional Words and Phrases
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Addition: |
Furthermore Also In addition Further Besides And, or, nor |
Moreover In the second place Even more Last, lastly Finally First, second, secondly, etc. |
Too Again Next |
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Time: |
While After When Meanwhile During Next Than So far |
Immediately Later, earlier Soon Sometimes Afterwards Following At length This time |
Never Always Whenever In the meantime Now, until now Once Simultaneously Subsequently |
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Place: |
Here There Nearby |
Beyond Wherever Opposite to |
Adjacent to Neighboring on Above, below |
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Exemplification or Illustration: |
To illustrate To demonstrate Specifically For instance |
As an illustration e.g., (for example) For example |
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Comparison: |
In the same way By the same token Similarly |
In the like manner Likewise In similar fashion |
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Contrast: |
Yet And yet Nevertheless Nonetheless After all |
On the contrary In contrast Notwithstanding On the other hand At the same time |
But However Though Otherwise |
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Clarification: |
That is to say In other words To explain i.e., (that is) |
To clarify To rephrase it To put it another way |
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Cause: |
Because |
On account of Since |
For that reason |
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Effect: |
Therefore Consequently accordingly |
Thus Hence As a result |
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Purpose: |
In order that So that |
To that end, to this end For this purpose |
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Qualification: |
Almost Nearly Probably |
Perhaps Maybe Although |
Never Always Frequently |
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Intensification: |
Indeed To repeat By all means Of course |
Undoubtedly In fact Surely In fact |
Doubtedly Certainly Without doubt Yes, no |
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Concession: |
To be sure |
Granted Of course |
It is true |
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Summary: |
To summarize In sum |
In short In summary |
In brief To sum up |
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Conclusion: |
In conclusion |
To conclude |
Finally |
Demonstratives act as transitions: this, these, those, that
Pronouns serve as links if they clearly refer to a specific word or phrase: his, her, it, its, they, their, our, your
Repetition of key words and phrases link sentences and paragraphs.
Parallel structure ( the repetition of a sentence pattern or a grammatical structure within a sentence) strengthens the relationship between and among sentences.
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