List Of Transitional Words
TRANSITIONAL WORDS
Transitions are words or phrases that help your sentences flow smoothly and enable your readers to follow your ideas easily. In additionto signaling order to your reader, transitional words can also link the sentences within a paragraph. By linking one sentence to another, they make the general statements more interesting.
Sometransitional words that signal time or sequence order: first to begin with in the past second next now, later third then soon last finally in the future
in the morning at noon toward afternoon byevening
at breakfast at lunch at dinner at night
Some transitional words that signal space or location order: at the top in front of on the left above beyond on the right against in the distance inthe center alongside inside, or inside of outside of amid at the bottom in the back among inside, inside of in back of
near next, next to below to the right throughout under
Some transitionalwords that signal importance order or a sequence of events: first to begin with for one thing soon second first of all in addition later third next furthermore also after as soon as most important mostimportant of all finally finally and most important last and most important Transition words or phrases can be utilized in other ways to add order, clarity, and coherence to your writing. Sometransitions which can be used to compare ideas: in the same way likewise as also like similarly
Some transitions which can be used to contrast ideas (the opposite): but yet on the other hand althoughhowever in the meantime on the contrary even though even so nevertheless still conversely
otherwise counter to as opposed to
(over)
Some transitions which can be used to emphasize a point: againindeed with this in mind to repeat in fact to emphasize
for this reason truly
Some transitions which can be used to conclude or summarize: as a result consequently accordingly in short...
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