Relier Pairs Linking wordsVersion en ligne Linking words by category par Karina Ceballos 1 To emphasise and highlight 2 To show cause and effect 3 To provide examples 4 To refer back 5 To add information 6 To show a sequence 7 To present alternatives 8 To contrast/contradict information 9 To show similarity finally, subsequently, first of all, to begin with, at first, firstly, secondly, thirdly, etc. after, before, when, while, as, until in the same way, similarly, likewise as noted above, as stated previously, originally, in the past, earlier, formerly furthermore, in addition, moreover, besides … , apart from … and, as well as for example, for instance, in this case, to illustrate this, … namely that is to say... in fact, indeed, obviously, undoubtedly, clearly, it is evident that, as a matter of fact therefore, thus, hence, consequently, as a result, for this reason, accordingly because, since, as, otherwise in contrast, on the other hand, conversely, however, nevertheless, meanwhile, on the contrary, despite this, whereas, while, although, even though, but alternatively, on the other hand, then again