KEY WORDS for IELTS WRITING

Stating Your Opinion In my opinion, In my view, From my point of view, It seems to me that From my perspective It appears that I realize I imagine According to me, To me, I think I believe To my way of thinking I suppose I understand I feel Giving Examples For example, such as as that is To illustrate For instance, In other words, like namely To paraphrase

Comparing Similar to in common Either...or Neither...nor Just as As...as also In the same way, At the same time resemble Contrasting However, On the contrary, Differ from Although Otherwise Alternatively, But On the other hand, Nevertheless Though Instead Even though Generalizing Generally, Overall, In general, It seems to me that Generally speaking, On the whole, By and large, I believe

All in all, Essentially, All things considered

Basically, As a rule, For the most part

Expressing Certainty Certainly, Doubtless, Definitely, Undoubtedly, No doubt, Of course, Expressing Partial Agreement More or less, Up to a point, In a way, To some extent, Almost, So to speak, Showing cause Due to Because of Because Owing to

Showing effect Therefore, Consequently, Thus, thereby Hence, As a result, For this reason, So, Eventually, The reason why Marking time First, Second, Third, Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly, During To begin with Simultaneously Since Afterwards When Last Lastly, Then, First of all, Before After While At the same time After this / that Meanwhile Following this As soon as

Adding Information Furthermore Also Moreover Likewise Besides Even In addition And Similarly As well as Too Whats more Expressing condition If In case Provided that Concluding To summarize Lastly, To conclude with, In conclusion Finally, In short, Whether Unless So that