1. CONNECTORS
SECTION A
TYPE I APPOSITIVE “i.e.”, “e.g.”
One such example is For example
In other words To give an example
Let me exemplify this concept By way of illustration
That is Such as
For instance As
One instance would be Like
i.e= id est =That is In particular
e.g= exempli gratia= for example Namely
Viz

2. CONNECTORS
TYPE II CORRECTIVE “rather”
Or rather More precisely
At least To be exact
To be precise Strictly speaking
Precisely Correctly speaking
Namely
Specifically
Particularly
Especially

3. CONNECTORS
TYPE III DISMISSIVE “In any case”
In any case, At all events
In any event No matter what
At any rate Regardless
Anyhow However
Regardless of ... Be that as it may

4. CONNECTORS
TYPE IV SUMMATIVE “In short”
In short To put it briefly
In brief To cut a long story short
Briefly In a word
To sum up In sum
In conclusion To come to the point
In a nutshell In essence
I’d like to conclude by saying.. In outline

5. CONNECTORS
TYPE V VERIFACTIVE “Actually”
Actually
As a matter of fact
In fact
The truth is
In actual fact
In point of fact
In reality
In actuality
In truth

6. CONNECTORS
SECTION B
TYPE I ADDITIVE “and”
And Similarly
Or Likewise
Moreover By contrast
Also Together with
In addition to Along with
Besides With
Additionally As well as
Furthermore Including
What is more Too
On top of that Plus (informal)
What’s more (informal)

7. CONNECTORS
TYPE II ADVERSATIVE “but”
But Instead Whereas
Yet Nevertheless Even so
However Nonetheless Still
On the one/other hand At any rate For all that
The former...the latter As a matter of fact All the same
Conversely Though Just the same
In contrast to-with Although In spite of (that)
By contrast Eventhough Despite (that)
As opposed to Notwithstanding Still (informal)
In opposition to Be that as it may
At the same time

8. CONNECTORS
TYPE III VARIATIVE “instead”
Alternatively For preference
As an alternative By choice
Instead of From choice
As a variation of On second thoughts
As a substitute All things being equal
As a replacement Ideally
In lieu
Rather
By contrast

9. CONNECTORS
SECTION C
TYPE I TEMPORAL “then”
When As
Then As soon as
Next Before that
Meanwhile After that
Before reaching that stage On another occasion
Prior to In conclusion
After that stage An hour later
In the meantime At last
Subsequently While
Finally At that time
Eventually

10. CONNECTORS
TYPE II COMPARATIVE “likewise”
Similarly
Likewise
In the same way
By the same token
The same
Correspondingly
In like manner
In similar fashion

11. CONNECTORS
TYPE III CAUSAL- “so”
CONSECUTIVE
Because It follows
So For
As a result Since
Therefore Under the circumstances
Consequently For this reason
Hence As a consequence
With this in mind Thus
Bearing this in mind Accordingly
On account of.. Then
On that account That being so
For this reason That being the case

12. CONNECTORS
TYPE IV CONDITIONAL “if ...then”
In that case
Provided (that) On the assumption that
Providing (that) Allowing (that)
Supposing (that) As long as
Presuming (that) Given that
Assuming (that) With the provision that
On condition that With/on the understanding that
If and only if Under the circumstances
Unless Contingent on
Otherwise In the event that
If… then Allowing that

13. CONNECTORS
TYPE V CONCESSIVE “yet”
Nevertheless Just the same
Nonetheless At the same time
Although Be that as it may
Despite the fact that Yet
In spite of
Even so
But
However
Still
All the same

14. CONNECTORS
TYPE VI RESPECTIVE “as to that”
In this respect On the subject of
As far as that concerned Relating to
As for/to Relevant to
In connection with With regard to
Concerning As regards
Connected with To do with
Regarding With reference to
As regards Referring to
Respecting With respect to
Touching on In the matter of
Apropos of Re

15. CONNECTORS
EXTRA CONTINUATIVE “anyway”
TYPE
Now In any case
Well In any event
Anyway At any rate
Of course At all events
Surely No matter what
After all Regardless
However

16. CONNECTORS
EXTRA PURPOSE “in order to”
TYPE
To
In order to
In order that
So as to
For
So that
If
In any case

17. CONNECTORS
EXTRA EMPHASIS “In fact”
TYPE
In fact In reality
Indeed As it happens
As expected Certainly
To be sure Surely
In point of fact For sure
In truth Undenaibly
Truly Veritably
Actually Nay
Really If the truth be told
We could say