INTRODUCTION

FIRST,FIRSTLY (d'abord),FIRST OF ALL (tout d'abord),IN THE FIRST PLACE (en premier lieu),ABOVE ALL,FIRST AND FOREMOST,MOST OF ALL (avant tout).AT FIRST,INITIALLY,FOR A START,AS A STARTING POINT,TO START/BEGIN WITH, IN/AT THE BEGINNING (au début, pour commencer),STARTING WITH (en commençant par),AT FIRST SIGHT/GLANCE (à première vue, au premier abord).

WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT? (de quoi s'agit-il), WHAT IS THE MAIN POINT/PROBLEM/QUESTION/IDEA/ISSUE ? IT IS A MATTER/QUESTION OF... (il s'agit de)

 

                                                DEVELOPPEMENT

THEN,AFTERWARDS (puis, ensuite),NEXT,AFTER THAT (après cela),SECONDLY,IN THE SECOND PLACE (en second lieu), BESIDES,IN ADDITION,MOREOVER (de plus), SIMILARLY,IN THE SAME WAY (de la même facon),ALSO,TOO, AS WELL,EQUALLY (aussi, également),NEITHER ... NOR ... (ni...ni), INDEED (en effet), IN FACT, AS A MATTER OF FACT, ACTUALLY (en fait),OF COURSE,NATURALLY,OBVIOUSLY (bien sûr, évidemment).IT SEEMS OBVIOUS/CLEAR THAT ...       

 

OPPOSITION :

BUT (mais), NEVERTHELESS,HOWEVER (cependant), YET (pourtant), ON THE CONTRARY (au contraire), IN THE OTHER HAND (en revanche), CONVERSELY (à l'oppposé), ON THE ONE HAND...ON THE OTHER HAND... (d'une part... d'autre part...), ALTHOUGH,THOUGH (bien que), IN SPITE OF, DESPITE (malgré, en dépit de), WHEREAS,WHILST (alors que), UNLIKE ( à la différene de)

 

CONDITION :

IF (si), PROVIDED/PROVIDING THAT, ON CONDITION THAT (à condition que), SUPPOSING (à supposer que), IN CASE (au cas où), EVEN IF (même si), EXCEPT IF, UNLESS (à moins que)

 

TIME :

WHEN (quand, lorsque), WHILE (pendant que), WHENEVER (chaque fois que), AS (comme, tandis que), BEFORE ...ING (avant de), AFTER ...ING (après avoir), SINCE (depuis), UNTIL/TILL (jusqu'à ce que), AS SOON AS (dès que), AS LONG AS (tant que), MEANWHILE,IN THE MEANTIME (en attendant, entretemps)

 

PURPOSE : (but)

IN ORDER TO, TO, SO AS TO (pour, en vue de), WITH A VIEW TO (dans l'intention de), IN ORDER THAT,SO THAT + modal (afin que, de sorte que)

 

CAUSE :

BECAUSE (parce que), AS (comme), SINCE (puisque), FOR (car), BECAUSE OF, OWING TO, DUE TO, ON THE GROUNDS OF (a cause de, en raison de), THANKS TO (grace à), WHY (pourquoi  BECAUSE ...), WHAT FOR? (dans quel but    TO + VB), THAT'S WHY, THIS IS THE REASON WHY (voilà pourquoi)

 

CONSEQUENCE :

SO, THUS (donc, ainsi), THEREFORE, ACCORDINGLY,CONSEQUENTLY (par conséquent), HENCE (d'où), THEREBY, AS A RESULT (OF WHICH) (de ce fait), SO ... THAT (tellement ... que), SO THAT (de telle sorte que)

 

                                                    CONCLUSION

IN SHORT, IN BRIEF, IN A WORD, TO SUM UP (en un mot, en résumé),EVENTUALLY (à la fin), LAST/LAST OF ALL, LASTLY, FINALLY (enfin, en dernier lieu), IN CONCLUSION, TO CONCLUDE (en conclusion)

 

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ACCORDINGLY, AFTER, AFTERWARDS, ALMOST, ALREADY, ALTHOUGH, AS SOON AS, AS LONG AS, AS FAR AS, AS, AND YET, ACTUALLY, AGAIN, ALWAYS, ALL THE SAME, AT LAST, AT LEAST, BEFORE, BESIDES, BECAUSE, BUT, BOTH, CONSEQUENTLY, DESPITE, DURING, EVEN IF, EVEN THOUGH, EVER, ELSE, FOR, HARDLY, HENCE, HOWEVER, IF, IN CASE, IN ORDER TO, INSTEAD OF, IN SPITE OF, FOR FEAR THAT, LEST, MAINLY, MEANWHILE, MOREOVER, NEARLY, NO MATTER, NEVERTHELESS, NOT YET, OF COURSE, OTHERWISE, PROVIDED, PERHAPS, QUITE, RATHER, SAME, SINCE, SO, SO THAT, SO AS TO, STILL, THUS, TILL, THOUGH, THEREFORE, THEN, UP/DOWN TO, UNTIL, UNLESS, WHEN, WHENEVER, WHILE, WHEREAS, WHETHER, WHATEVER, WHOEVER, WHEREVER, WHICHEVER