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English phrases

Sentence starters, transitional and other useful words.

It can sometimes be difficult to start a sentence to express ideas, or find words to show the relationship between ideas. Below is a list of possible sentence starters, transitional and other words that may be useful.

Furthermore, Academic Phrasebank by Dr John Morley is worth taking a closer look.

Table of Contents

Introduce

Add background ideas

Add ideas

Add rare ideas

Add common ideas

Add inconclusive ideas

Add others’ ideas

Add examples

Compare and contrast

Show relationships or outcome

Conclude