Linking words

Personal opinion
In my opinion
Personally I believe that
I am inclined to believe that the world would be a much better
As far as I am concerned
If you ask me place without nuclear power
As I see it

Asking for opinion

Wouldn´t you say that …?
How do you feel about it?

Agreeing
I completely (totally) agree. This is
the best option.
I couldn´t agree with you more.
I think you’re right
I see what you mean
What a great idea!
Absolutely!
I like this option because …
Under my view it´s the best we
can do.

Siting on the fence

It´s a difficult issue. Es un tema difícil.
Well, it depends, doesn´t it? Bueno, depende, ¿no?
I can see both sides of that argument Puedo ver ambos lados de
ese argumento

Disagreeing
I´m not sure I quite agree with No estoy seguro de estar del todo
you. de acuerdo contigo.
 I tend to disagree with you there. Tiendo a estar en desacuerdo
contigo allí.
I see what you mean, but … Veo lo que quieres decir, pero …
I´m afraid I can´t agree with you.
I´m sorry I don´t think we have
the same point of view.
I see your point of view, but ….

Expressing great surprise

I nearly fainted. Casi me desmayo
I couldn´t believe my eyes.
You´re joking!

Apologies
I didn´t intend to …
I´m awfully sorry, I didn´t mean to …

Making a suggestion
Why don´t we …..?
Shall we …?
How about ……-ing?
We could …

Offering help
Shall I give you a hand with that?
Let me take those bags for you,
I´ll do it

Cuando no quieres meterte en un asunto determinado

It´s not my cup of tea
I´m not really into music

Buying time to think

Let me see …
Let me think …
That´s an interesting question
To list advantages
One advantage of
Another advantage of
The main advantage of traveling to work by bicycle is that
it is cheap.
The greatest advantage of

To list disadvantages
One disadvantage of
Another disadvantage of traveling to work by bicycle is
The main disadvantage of that it is cheap.
The greatest disadvantage of

Asking for clarification or petition

Could you repeat that please?
Sorry, I didn´t catch that.

Clarifying your position

That´s not what I was trying to
say.

To list points
Firstly,
First of all,
In the first place, wash the wound with
BEGINNING First, cold water.
To start with,
To begin with,
Secondly,
Thirdly
After this/that, wrap a bandage
CONTINUING Afterwards, around the cut
Después
Then,
Next,
Finally,
Lastly place the patient in a
CONCLUDING
Last but not least, comfortable position.
 To add more points on the same topic
What is more, Que es más,
Furthermore, Además,
not mention cars are extremely
Apart from this/that,
the fact that expensive to
In addition (to this), maintain
Moreover, Además,
Besides (this), Aparte de (esto),
…….also……… Cars are…… …extremely
expensive.
………too. Cars are
extremely
expensive….
Not only……., but……as well are cars they´re extremely
harmful to the expensive…
environment...
………both…………….and….. Cars are…… harmful to the ..expensive.
environment….

To refer to other sources (Fuentes)

With reference to the Guardian, the unemployment
According to rate is falling.
Concerning

To express cause
…because...
…due to the fact that…
…since…
…as…
Because of… Porque….
….for this reason…..
Seeing that…. Viendo que ….

To express effect
… ,thus, … … ,así, …
…., therefore, ….. … ,por lo tanto, …
…. ,so, …..
…. ,consequently, ….
….. ,as a result, ……
….. , for this reason, …
To express purpose
… for fear (that) … … por miedo a que…
.. así que eso …
…para que …
… so that … … de modo que …
…a fin de que …
… so as to… … para…
…a fin de que …
…in order to … … para…
…para que …

To emphasise what you say

Clearly, …
Obviously, …
Of course, …
Needless to say, … Excusado es decir que …

To express reality
In fact, … De hecho, …
In practice, … En la práctica, …
Indeed, … En efecto, ….
To tell you the truth, …
Actually, … En realidad, …

To express the difference between appearance and reality

Initially, … Inicialmente, ….
At first, …..
At first sight, …. A simple vista, …

To give examples
For instance, …
For example, …
…. such as ….
… like …
…, specially, …
To make general statements (Hacer declaraciones generales)
In general, …
On the whole, …

To make partially correct statements

Up to a point, …
Hasta cierto punto, …
In a sense, … En ese sentido, …

To express limit of knowledge

To the best of my knowledge, … Según entiendo, …
As far as I know, ... Por lo que sé, .../ Que yo sepa …

To state other people´s opinion

It is popularly believed that, … Popularmente se cree que, …
Some people argue that …
A lot of people believe that Mucha gente cree que …

To make contrasting points

…., yet, …. , todavía, / aún
…., however, …. , sin embargo,
…, nevertheless,…. , sin embrago, / , no obstante,
… , but, …
…, at the same time, …
Although A pesar de que / Aunque
In spite of, … A pesar de,… /No obstante,….
While, … Mientras, …

To express balance (el otro punto de vista)

, however, , sin embargo,
, but,
, on the other hand,
, although, A pesar de que / Aunque
, yet,
, at the same time,
, in contrast, , a diferencia de,
Negative addition
Neither Ninguno
Neither of them Ninguno de ellos

To express exception
… but… … pero …
…apart from… …aparte de…
… except … ... excepto / salvo ...

To clarify (renombrar)
In other words,….. En otras palabras,…..
That is to say, … Es decir,

To express similarity
… ,likewise, … , igualmente,
in the same way , del mismo modo,

To give an alternative
On the other hand, Por otra parte,
Alternatively, Alternativamente,

To express condition
… on the condition that, ... con la condición de que,
…as long as… .. mientras que.../…siempre que…
…in case of…. …en caso de...
…..whether…. …si…
otherwise .. de otra manera….

To express the consequence of a condition

… consequently, …. … por consiguiente…
…then… … entonces …
….so…. … asi que …
…otherwise…. …de otra manera….
To conclude
Finally, Finalmente,
Lastly, Por último,
All in all, Considerándolo todo,
On the whole, En conjunto,
In conclusion, En conclusión,
To sum up, Resumiendo,
At last but not least … Al final, pero no menos importante …

To summarising
In short, En resumen,
Briefly, Brevemente,
To put it briefly, Para decirlo brevemente,