The document lists various connectives and transitional phrases that can be used to improve exam answers by clarifying relationships between ideas, providing examples, and organizing information. It emphasizes the importance of using such connectives for contrasting, concluding, and illustrating points effectively. The extensive collection serves as a resource for structuring written responses coherently.

1. CONNECTIVES – Improving exam answers
When adding on information or ideas
When adding contrasting information
Compare and Contrast
When placing information in an orderly fashion,
When listing information as a result or a cause of something
When adding a concluding information

2. When adding information that will serve as an example or as an illustration
When adding information that describes a relationship between things
When explaining ideas
Putting ideas in order
Cause and Effect
Conclusion

3. Therefore
Likewise nonetheless
Hence
in a similar way at the same time
all in all
similarly though
all this evidence points to
On the other hand Similarly
so
In contrast Also
in conclusion
Nevertheless At the same time...
finally
However In addition to
consequently
On the contrary In other words
to sum up
Despite Instead of...
as a result
In the second place For the same reason
Thus
Conversely After that
all this suggests that
Nevertheless Before...
this resulted in
Yet Just before...
all this leads to
by contrast Before that
In addition
all the same Then
Moreover
after all Firstly
Furthermore
conversely Secondly
Besides
however Thirdly
In fact
still Next
Meanwhile
rather Lastly
Another way to...
for all that despite this Eventually
What's more
but; on the other hand Gradually
Also
on the contrary Finally

4. For example
Meanwhile Next
For instance
Furthermore Yet
Firstly
To begin with Instead
Meanwhile
Summing up... However
Initially
As a result Therefore
Further
As a consequence Thus
Secondly
Consequently Usually
Next
Therefore Whatever...
Afterwards
Thus Accordingly
Lastly
Likewise In contrast
Then
Moreover Although
Finally
Furthermore Besides
Later
Because ... Meanwhile
most importantly
This is why... Furthermore
because
That is why... Generally
consequently
In conclusion Nevertheless
in order that
In summary Namely
for
Finally such as
thus
Lastly as already stated
so that
Also for example in other
words
for that reason
Incidentally
that is
as a result
Likewise
for instance
Moreover