Telling about cause and result

Starting

As a matter of fact

First of all

To begin with

I’d like to talk about…

I’ve chosen to talk about…

I’m going to talk about…

What I am going to cover is..

Commenting

As a rule,

Essentially

Generally speaking

Actually

Evidently

Seemingly

Apparently

Naturally

Obviously…

Of course…

Certainly

Definetly

It goes without saying that…

It is clear that

As I have said before…

It’s quite likely that

It’s possible that

Adding information

Besides

Moreover

In addition to

Futhermore

Another point is that..

What is more..

not only … but also

Additionaly

Incidentally

Explaining

Most importantly, …

By … I mean…

That is to say…

What I mean is that..

In other words

to be more precise

Expressing condition

If

Unless

Provided that

Whether

In case

Comparing

like /likewise

equally

as well as

just as

Similarly

Analogous to

corresponds to

akin to

related to

If you compare.. with

In the same way

At the same time

Neither.. nor

Either.. or

resemble

Contrasting ideas

However

Nevertheless/nonetheless

Notwithstanding

Although / even though

Despite

Otherwise

In spite of/ irrespective of the fact that/ regardless

On the one hand, …on the other hand

Unlike…

Whereas..

In theory…, but in practice…

Meanwhile

At the same time

In contrast

On the contrary

While this is true…

Expressing Purpose

in order that

so that

so as to

to

Giving your opinion

I think/I don’t really think…

I believe/I don’t believe…

Personally, I think…

In my opinion…

From my point of view

It seems to me that…

I suppose so

The first point I’d like to make is that…

Frankly speaking,

Honestly,

I would say that

I doubt that

I feel

I imagine

I realize

It appears that

From my perspective

Emphasizing

especially

particularly

exactly because

The more…

Obviously

Undoubtedly/ There’s no doubt that…

As a matter of fact/ In fact

Telling about cause and result

On account of

Since

Because of

The main reason why…

One reason for this is

It is possibly due to

It may come from the fact that

The immediate cause of this

This has resulted in

This has led to

One of the causes of this is

Due to this/ owing to

The reason for

For this reason,

So/therefore

Consequently

This is why

As a result

Hence

Thus

Expressing Partial Agreement

To some extent,

So to speak

In a way

More or less,

Almost,

Exemplifying

Let me give you an example.

Let me explain why I think that.

Consider …, for example.

Take … as one example of..

In case of …

Another example of…

For instance…

… such as..

Namely

Specifically

as an illustration

To demonstrate/ to illustrate

A good illustration of this is

If we take an example

Evidence for this is provided by

We can see this when

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