IELTS common phrases and set expressions

Stating Your Opinion	Giving Examples	Comparing
In my opinion,	For example,	Similar to
In my view,	such as	in common
From my point of view,	as	Either...or
It seems to me that	that is	Neither...nor
From my perspective	To illustrate	Just as
It appears that	For instance,	As...as
I realize	In other words,	also
I imagine	like	In the same way,
According to me,	namely	At the same time
To me,	To paraphrase	resemble
I think
I believe
To my way of thinking
I suppose
I understand
I feel
Contrasting	Generalizing	Showing effect
However,	Generally,	Therefore,
On the contrary,	Generally speaking,	Consequently,
Differ from	Overall,	Thus,
Although	In general,	thereby
Otherwise	It seems to me that	Hence,
Alternatively,	All in all,	As a result,
But	Essentially,	For this reason,
On the other hand,	All things considered	So,
Nevertheless	On the whole,	Eventually,
Though	By and large,	The reason why
Instead	I believe
Even though	Basically,
	As a rule,
	For the most part
Expressing Partial Agreement	Showing cause	Expressing Certainty
More or less,	Due to	Certainly,
Up to a point,	Because of	Doubtless,
In a way,	Because	Definitely,
To some extent,	Owing to	Undoubtedly,
Almost,		No doubt,
So to speak,		Of course,
Adding Information	Expressing condition	Concluding
Furthermore	If	To summarize
Also	In case	Lastly,
Moreover	Provided that	To conclude with,
Likewise	Whether	In conclusion
Besides	Unless	Finally,
Even	So that	In short,
In addition
And
Similarly
As well as
Too
What’s more
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