Relier Pairs Formal and informal languageVersion en ligne Match the phrases - for each informal phrase, there will be a more formal one that is more appropriate in academic writing. par Ruth North 1 I don’t know why… 2 At the moment, some people think that… 3 The last paragraph of my essay is going to be about… 4 We might need to… 5 In my essay I am going to talk about… 6 I asked… 7 I think that this is because… 8 It’ll go up because… 9 I think it is sad that… It could be necessary to… It is difficult to ascertain… It will increase due to… The essay will explore… The final part of this enquiry will address… It is unfortunate that… Current research indicates that… It appears that this is because… Enquiries have been made…