Transition Words and Phrases - Ms. McClure
[Pages:2]Transition Words and Phrases
Size Transitions: The largest The next largest The smallest
Larger than Equal to Smaller than
The smallest The next smallest The largest
The small-sized The medium-sized The large-sized
The tallest The shortest
Time Transitions:
First,
Now
Then,
Soon
Next,
Then
At last, Later
At the beginning of In the middle of At the end of
Thereafter, Presently, After a short time, Soon thereafter,
By this time, At the same time, At that instant, Immediately, Simultaneously,
Before In the meantime Meanwhile During After Afterwards
First, Second, Third, Finally,
In the morning, Before noon, In the afternoon, In the evening,
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, The day after tomorrow,
The first A more recent The most recent
In the past, In the present, In the future,
The next day, Two weeks later, Six months later,
This year, Next year, In the next few years,
The earliest The next earliest The most recent
Space Transitions:
behind
on the edge of
over
toward
under
throughout
below
to the right of
beneath
to the left of
low down
on top of
on the bottom at the top
on the corner by
beside around near side by side close to next to down up
in front of facing in back of in the center inside outside at the end of between
west of east of north of south of at the in on above
high against alongside ahead of here there beyond farther on
Importance Transitions:
The best
The most important
The next best
Equally important
The least best
The next important
The least important
The first More important than More important
The best The next best The worst
Chain-Link Transitions:
On the one hand,
One example of,
On the other hand, For instance,
Another example
Again,
A further example
Besides,
For example,
Moreover,
For instance,
Still another
In addition,
In the same way,
In fact,
The opposite of __ is __ Lastly,
On the contrary side Similar to __ is __
To the contrary,
Similarly,
In contrast,
Likewise,
In spite of
Despite the
In the first place, In the second place, In the third place,
In other words, In fact, Additionally,
One Another A further Further, Furthermore,
The last Last Nevertheless, Nonetheless,
Because Since As Still, While Instead Indeed, Although Even though Even if
The first The second The third
First, Second, Third, Specifically, More specifically In particular, As a result, Consequently, Naturally, After all,
Concluding Transitions:
To conclude,
In sum,
In conclusion,
In brief,
In summary,
In short,
To sum up, To summarize, Thus, Therefore,
As you can see, As a result, Finally,
Commonly Used Transition Words and Phrases for Expository Essays
Beginning (beginning of the second paragraph
Middle (the beginning of the
third paragraph)
End (the beginning of the
fourth paragraph)
Conclusion (the final paragraph)
First, My first reason To illustrate my point, In fact,
To begin with, For one thing, You see, Obviously,
Next, Secondly, My second reason Additionally, Along with Likewise, In the same manner,
Next, Finally, My final reason
Obviously, Second, Once again, In addition, Again Moreover, Similarly,
Lastly, My last reason Once again,
In conclusion,
Thus,
Therefore,
As a result,
To summarize,
Finally,
Consequently,
By this time
To sum up my thoughts, Now that
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