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Transition Words and Phrases

This document provides a list of transition words and phrases useful for connecting ideas and showing relationships between different parts of written work. It includes terms for sequencing events, showing time relationships, indicating causes and effects, emphasizing points, making exceptions, giving examples, and summarizing conclusions. Knowing these transitional expressions can help both writers organize their ideas and readers follow the logic and flow of arguments and explanations.

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Transition Words and Phrases

This document provides a list of transition words and phrases useful for connecting ideas and showing relationships between different parts of written work. It includes terms for sequencing events, showing time relationships, indicating causes and effects, emphasizing points, making exceptions, giving examples, and summarizing conclusions. Knowing these transitional expressions can help both writers organize their ideas and readers follow the logic and flow of arguments and explanations.

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Transition Words and Phrases

Knowing the words and phrases below is useful for understanding transitions in news articles, academic texts, essays, and stories. Using transition words and phrases in written responses can help readers understand the organization of the writing and the connection between ideas. PURPOSE Sequence To add To prove To compare and contrast again, also, and, and then, finally, first, second, third, next, still, too, and so forth, afterward, subsequently, finally, consequently, previously, before this, simultaneously, concurrently besides, equally important, finally, further, furthermore, nor, lastly, whats more, moreover, in addition because, for since, for the same reason, obviously, evidently, furthermore, moreover, besides, indeed, in fact, in addition, in any case, that is whereas, but, yet, on the hand, however, nevertheless, on the contrary, by comparison, where compared to, up against, balanced against, vis a vis, but, although, conversely, meanwhile, after all, in contrast, although this may be true, still, though yet, despite, as opposed to immediately, thereafter, soon, after a few hours, finally, then, later, previously, formerly, first (second,etc.), next, and then, as long as, as soon as as a result, because, consequently, for this purpose, so, then, therefore, to this end definitely, extremely, obviously, in fact, indeed, in any case, absolutely, positively, naturally, surprisingly, always, forever, perennially, eternally, never, emphatically, unquestionably, without a doubt, certainly, undeniably, without reservation yet, still, however, nevertheless, in spite of, despite, of course, once in a while, sometimes 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, such as In brief, on the whole, summing up, to conclude, in conclusion, as I have shown, hence, therefore, accordingly, thus, as a result, consequently, as has been noted, as we have seen

Time Cause-and-effect Emphasis

Exception Examples To summarize and conclude

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