TRANSITIONAL WORDS AND PHRASES

1. TRANSITIONAL WORDS AND PHRASES

2. Why use transitions? Transitions provide coherence by helping the reader understand the relationships between ideas. Put transitions in different places, but make sure it sounds logical.

3. Addition Transitions Mild And Also Too Another Then A further And then Other Strong Furthermore Moreover In addition Additionally Besides Equally important First, second Finally, last

4. Compare Transitions Mild Similar Like Both Just as Strong In the same way Likewise Comparable Similarly

5. Contrast Transitions Mild But Yet And yet Still Or Rather Otherwise But another Strong However Nevertheless On the other hand On the contrary In contrast Instead Nonetheless Notwithstanding

6. Time Transitions Mild Then, now, next Recently Soon, afterward Shortly First, second, third Earlier, later Before, after Today, tomorrow Strong Meanwhile Presently At last, finally Immediately Subsequently, eventually Currently In the meantime In the past, in the future

7. Purpose Transitions Mild To do this So that Strong To this end With this object For this purpose For that reason Because of this

8. Place Transitions Mild There Here Beyond Nearby Next to Strong At that point Opposite to Adjacent to On the other side In the front In the back

9. Result Mild So And so then Strong Hence Therefore Consequently Thus As a result thereupon

10. Example Mild That is Specifically In particular For one thing Strong For example For instance This can be seen in An instance of this

11. Summary and Emphasis Mild Generally After all By the way In general Naturally At least I suppose Short In fact Indeed Clearly, obviously Definitely, certainly Without a doubt In any event Importantly