IELTS

Transitional Expressions  Body Part: To begin with To start with First of all Firstly Furthermore What is more Next to that Further Likewise Moreover Besides this In addition to that Another important point is Analogically Corroborating it Examples: For instance To cite an example As an example As an epitome Other Side: Irrespective of above Even so Howbeit Incongruously Unseemly to that Notwithstanding Despite of Regardless of/with On the flip side In contrast On the contrary However Whilst Nevertheless Unlike Conclusion: To sum up To summarize To conclude In brief In closing In synopsis To recapitulate In gist To pen down Note: Put a comma after all these Transitional Expressions

  Linking words/Connectors/Cohesive devices Reason Due to Owing to The reason why Cause Leads to As So Since In other words Summary To conclude In conclusion To sum up In summary To summarise Finally In a nutshell In short To recapitulate All in all In closing Lastly Expressing time When Whenever Since Before After Ago Until Meanwhile While As soon as No sooner than Just as Defination Means Consist of Contains That is  Refer to

  Linking words/Connectors/Cohesive devices Showing similarity or equating In the same way Accordingly Likewise Equally important Similarly Contrast However On the other hand Rather On the contrary But Otherwise In spite of Despite Though Although Even though Nonetheless Alternatively In contrast Whereas Yet Conversely Nevertheless While Whilst Even if Showing certainty Of course Obvious Undoubtedly Plainly Certainly Unquestionably Assuredly Without question Beyond question Indisputably Irrefutably Condition If Unless Whether So that Provided that For Depending on

 Linking words/Connectors/Cohesive devices Sequence First or Firstly To initiate with To commence with To begin with In the first place The first is (Reason, Factor) Initially Next Afterwords Then Earlier Following this/that Finally/Lastly Consequence or showing result Hence Thus Therefore So As a result On this/that account It follows that Eventually Consequently As a consequence Thereby In that case Admittedly Addition Also And In addition To add Moreover What is more Furthermore Likewise Similarly As well as And then Too Not only...but Besides this/that Referring or example For example For instance Particularly Namely To illustrate In particular Such as To exemplify Just as That is to say