Close-up considerations

First of all…, then…, next…, after that…, later (on), finally, to

sum up , all in all, so, in short, to cut a long story short, to put the

whole thing in a nutshell

IV. Stating the problem:

Thinking about the problem:

~ What bothers me is…

~ In a case like this

~ The problem is

~ In this sort of situation…

~ The point is…

~ In a situation like this…

~ The most important thing is

~ This raises the problem of…

~ The fact is…

~ The real question is…

~ What I’m worried about is…

~ If I understand you correctly

V. Expressing emotional attitude:

Explaining and strenghtening idea

~ Oddly enough

~ What I mean is…

~ Surprisingly

~ What I’m saying is…

~ Funnily enough

~ What I’m trying to say is…

~ Fortunately…

~ So, what you are saying is…

~ In other words.

~ So you mean that…

~ If I understand you correctly

VI Introducing unexpected inferrence:

Correcting mistakes.

~ Actually…

~ I didn’t mean it…

~ To tell the truth…

~ What I meant was….

~ The only thing is,…..

~ Let me rephrase what…

~ To be honest…

~ I just said…

~ Frankly,…

VII.Generalizing

Expressing personal preferences

~ Generally,

Again and again

~Well, personally…

~ As a rule

Most of the time

~ From my point of view

~ On the whole ussualy

In most cases

~ What I’m more concerned with is…

~ Normally

In my experience

~ In my case

VIII. Introducing a grounded opinion

Approving the thoughts

~ Evidently, (obviously)

~ That is just the point

~ Presumably,

~ Admittedly, allegedly

~ Conceivably,

9. Expressing certainty

Developing the thoughts

~ I think

~ To start with

~ I suppose

~ And another thing

~ I’m fairly certain that

~ What is more

~ I’m convinced that…

~ Moreover

~ Certainly,…

~ Just a small point

~ I should mention

~ Not only that

~ And besides

9. Being not quite sure

Stating the cause

~ I doubt if

~ It’s difficult to say, that

~ The reason why

~ Perhaps, it’s

~ Because

~ I’d say

~ I couldn’t tell

~ Possibly, but…

9. Being personally concerned

Supposing in future

~ I stongly belive that

~ If I ever

~ I’ m convinced that

~ Whenever

~ Without a doubt

~ By the time

~ I’m absolutely certain, that

~ I personally feel that

~ To my mind

~ In my personal opinion

9. Expressing understanding.

Introdusing counter-argument

~ Even so,

~ That may be so, but

~ That’s probably true, but

~ Do you mean to say

~ Possibly, but

~ Yes, but don’t forget

~ But in the long run

~ Anyway

~ On the other hand

~ Very true, but

9. Prooving ideas

Disagreeing

~ For example,

~ No, I’m afraid not

~ Take for instance

~ That’s just not true

~ For one thing

~ But don’t you think

~ To give you an idea of

~ I don’t see it quite like that

~ Come on !

XIV. Responding to information

~ That’s right

~ I agree with you there

~ That’s just the point

~ Yes, I know exactly

~ Exactly

~ What you mean

~ You said it.

~ That’s what I thought too

~ I agree

~ You’re absolutely right