IELTS Practice – Linking Words | Prepare for your IELTS test
IELTS Practice – Linking Words | Prepare for your IELTS test
You should ensure that you organise your ideas clearly by using a variety of linking words and phrases. This will help improve your Cohesion and Coherence scores.
Although some of these words have already been mentioned as sentence connectors, they can also be used to develop coherence within a paragraph, that is linking one idea / argument to another. Print off this page to keep as a reference of useful linking words and phrases.
Linking Arguments
- First of all, I think …
- Not only that, but I also think that …
- Not only are they …, they are also …
- They are not …, nor are they …
- There are various/several/many reasons for this.
- First, … / Firstly, …
- Second, … / Secondly, …
- Moreover, … / Furthermore, … / In addition, …
- Another significant point is that …
- Finally, …
- On the one hand, … On the other hand, …
- In contrast to this is …
- Because of …
- That is why …
- After all, …
- The reason is that …
- In that respect …
- The result of this is that …
- Another aspect/point is that …
- It is because …
- Although it is true that … it would be wrong to claim that …
- That may sometimes be true, but …
- One could argue that …, but …
Providing Examples
- Take for example (the case of) …
- Look at …
- For instance … / For example …
- Let me give you an example.
Additions and Conclusion
- Most probably …
- It appears to be …
- It is important to mention that…
- As I already indicated …
- In other words, …
- I am most concerned about …
- I should like to repeat once again that …
- I should like to emphasise that …
- I would (just) like to add …
- So all in all I believe that…
- (In) summing up it can be said that …
- Weighing the pros and cons, I come to the conclusion that …
Linking words and phrases
Although some of these words have already been mentioned as sentence connectors, they can also be used to develop coherence within a paragraph, that is linking one idea / argument to another. Print off this page to keep as a reference of useful linking words and phrases.
Sequence
- First / firstly, second / secondly, third / thirdly etc
- Next, last, finally
- In addition, moreover
- Further / furthermore
- Another
- Also
- In conclusion
- To summarise
Result
- So
- As a result
- As a consequence (of)
- Therefore
- Thus
- Consequently
- Hence
- Due to
Emphasis
- Undoubtedly
- Indeed
- Obviously
- Generally
- Admittedly
- In fact
- Particularly / in particular
- Especially
- Clearly
- Importantly
Addition
- And
- In addition / additionally / an additional
- Furthermore
- Also
- Too
- As well as
Reason
- For
- Because
- Since
- As
- Because of
Example
- For example
- For instance
- That is (ie)
- Such as
- Including
- Namely
Contrast
- However
- Nevertheless
- Nonetheless
- Still
- Although / even though
- Though
- But
- Yet
- Despite / in spite of
- In contrast (to) / in comparison
- While
- Whereas
- On the other hand
- On the contrary
Comparison
- Similarly
- Likewise
- Also
- Like
- Just as
- Just like
- Similar to
- Same as
- Compare
- compare(d) to / with
- Not only…but also
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