This document provides a list of phrases for:
1) Beginning a discussion by introducing the topic or expressing the structure of the discussion
2) Expressing opinions and making judgments
3) Explaining causes, results, and purposes
This document provides a list of phrases for:
1) Beginning a discussion by introducing the topic or expressing the structure of the discussion
2) Expressing opinions and making judgments
3) Explaining causes, results, and purposes
This document provides a list of phrases for:
1) Beginning a discussion by introducing the topic or expressing the structure of the discussion
2) Expressing opinions and making judgments
3) Explaining causes, results, and purposes
As a matter of fact If I think/I don’t really think…
First of all Unless I believe/I don’t believe… To begin with Provided that Personally, I think… Whether In my opinion… In case From my point of view I’d like to talk about… It seems to me that… I’ve chosen to talk about… Comparing I suppose so I’m going to talk about… like/likewise The first point I’d like to What I am going to cover is.. equally make is that… as well as Frankly speaking, Commenting just as Honestly, As a rule, Similarly I would say that Essentially Analogous to I doubt that Generally speaking corresponds to I feel Actually akin to I imagine Evidently related to I realize Seemingly If you compare.. with It appears that Apparently In the same way From my perspective Naturally At the same time Obviously… Neither .. nor Emphasizing Of course… Either.. or especially Certainly resemble particularly Definitely exactly because It goes without saying that… Contrasting ideas The more… It is clear that However Obviously As I have said before… Nevertheless/nonetheless Undoubtedly/ There’s no It’s quite likely that Notwithstanding doubt that… It’s possible that Although / even though As a matter of fact/ In fact Despite Otherwise Telling about cause and Adding information In spite of/ irrespective of the result Besides fact that/ regardless On account of Moreover On the one hand, …on the Since In addition to other hand Because of Furthermore Unlike… The main reason why… Another point is that.. Whereas.. One reason for this is What is more.. In theory… , but in It is possibly due to not only … but also practice… It may come from the fact Additionally Meanwhile that Incidentally At the same time The immediate cause of this In contrast This has resulted in On the contrary This has led to Explaining While this is true… One of the causes of this is Most importantly, … Due to this/ owing to By … I mean… The reason for That is to say… Expressing Purpose For this reason, What I mean is that.. in order that So/therefore In other words so that Consequently to be more precise so as to This is why to As a result Hence Thus Expressing Partial Agreement Answering the 3rd part To some extent, I’m not an expert, but… So to speak I read somewhere that… In a way It has many implications. More or less, There’s a question mark over.. Almost, It’s difficult to say because I… I haven’t thought about it before, but it Exemplifying seems to me.. plays an important role in… Let me give you an example. That’s crucial. Let me explain why I think that. Consider …, for example. Advantages Take … as one example of.. One definite plus is that In case of … The great advantage is Another example of… One of the main arguments in favour of … For instance… is … … such as.. Namely Disadvantages Specifically One problem is that... as an illustration Another big disadvantage is… To demonstrate/ to illustrate A big minus is.. A good illustration of this is One of the main arguments against … If we take an example is… Evidence for this is provided by We can see this when Balancing Weighing everything up, Giving an alternative viewpoint On balance, I am not sure that I agree with… taking everything into account, Well, I don’t think so really If we look at both sides of the argument Well, my point of view is rather different To be honest, no, because Summarising I am afraid I can’t agree with that idea, Finally, because All in all I am afraid I think.. On the whole Well I don’t know for sure, but… Summing up/ to sum up I would say the opposite In short/ to cut a long story short Possibly, but … In conclusion…/ to conclude I tend to believe… In brief.. Yes, in theory … but in practice … by and large I am not in favour of Last but not least I am unconvinced that… With this in mind To put it in a nutshell
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