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Useful phrases for articles/speeches /reports

Continuation Again Also Similarly Besides Furthermore In addition Moreover Likewise

Conclusion As a result Consequently Hence So Therefore Thus Accordingly In short In conclusion Because

Contrast But However On the contrary On the other hand Yet Instead Conversely In spite of Still Nor Even though Unfortunately Example: No one can doubt his honesty; however, it is suspicious that he was found walking out of the safe with bags of money.

Comparison/Illustration For example That is In other words In fact As a matter of fact Example: No one can doubt his honesty. As a matter of fact, he was not even in town the night of the robbery.

Example: No one can doubt his honesty. Besides, he had Example: no motive for robbery. No one can doubt his honestly; therefore, we should stop accusing him.

How to gather your idea and choose best expressions . Using these phrases you can express yourself better and beautify your written work .

Starting Your Opinion In my opinion, In my view, From my point of view, It seems to me that From my perspective It appears that I realize According to me, To me, I think I believe To my way of thinking I suppose I understand

I imagine Giving Examples For example, such as as that is To illustrate Comparing Similar to in common Either...or Neither...nor Just as Contrasting However, On the contrary, Differ from Although Otherwise Alternatively, Generalizing Generally, Overall, In general, It seems to me that But As...as also

I feel

For instance, In other words, like namely To paraphrase

In the same way, At the same time resemble

On the other hand, Nevertheless Though Instead Even though

Generally speaking, On the whole, By and large, I believe

All in all, Essentially, All things considered Expressing Certainty Certainly, Doubtless, Definitely, Expressing Partial Agreement More or less, Up to a point, In a way, Showing cause Due to Because of Showing effect Therefore, Consequently, Thus, thereby Hence, Marking time First, Second, Third, Firstly,

Basically, As a rule, For the most part

Undoubtedly, No doubt, Of course,

To some extent, Almost, So to speak,

Because Owing to

As a result, For this reason, So, Eventually, The reason why

Last Lastly, Then, First of all,

Secondly, Thirdly, During To begin with Simultaneously Since Afterwards When Adding Information Furthermore Also Moreover Likewise Besides Even Expressing condition If In case Provided that Concluding To summarize Lastly, To conclude with,

Before After While At the same time After this / that Meanwhile Following this As soon as

In addition And Similarly As well as Too Whats more

Whether Unless So that

In conclusion Finally, In short,

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