Connectives you can use to write essays or any form of writing.

CONNECTIVES
This list should enable you to ‘signpost’ almost any kind of essay or comprehension answer.

qualifying although unless except
if
yet
as long as apart from desp ite
cause and effect because
so
therefore
thus
consequently stemming from this as a result
an upshot of
hence
contrasting whereas alternatively instead of otherwise unlike

on the other hand in other respects
on the contrary
emphasising above all
in particular especially sign if icantly indeed notably obviously clearly
illustrating for example including such as
for instance
as revealed by
in the case of these include
as exemplified by
comparing equally

sim ilarly

in the same way likewise like
as with
in that respect
additional and
also
as well as moreover too
in addition additionally furthermore
sequencing firstly secondly lastly
next
then finally first second meanwhile
temporal (time) before
during
earlier
later since

meanw hile whenever till
until
by the time now
stra ightaw ay already
in x hours at x o’clock afterwards next time hitherto
placing
on
inside within outside throughout near beyond among below
to beneath from towards into

out of off