useful phrases to keep up a Phrases we use to show our

opinion: I think… It seems to me… (Personally), I believe… From my point of

view/viewpoint… (Personally), I feel… As far as I’m concerned… In my view/opinion… As I see it, … For all I know, … As far as I can see, … To my knowledge, … I guess … At my best guess, … To my way of thinking, …

To crown it all, … It is important to note that … What counts here is … What matters here is … It is vital to note that … It is important to keep in mind

that … It is important to point that … An important point is that … What’s worse … It turned out/appeared that … It is no great surprise that … On the one hand, …, on the other

hand, … Luckily/Fortunately/

Unfortunately … As good (bad) luck would have it,

… To make matters still worse, … This plays a key/vital/prominent/

important /major role in … As to/ as for … As far as … is concerned, …

Introductory words: In short/ in a word/ in brief … As far as to … To say nothing of … First of all /above all … What’s more… By the way… Look here… After all … Just for the record … And so on / and so forth …

If I’m not mistaken … In other words … On the contrary … The thing is …

The ways to agree/disagree: Maybe … Yes, sure … You are right … It can hardly be so… Very well… Most likely… Most unlikely … Not a bit!/No such thing … I believe so /I suppose so … I doubt it … Naturally … No way … Exactly so … Quite so …

Universal phrases to keep up a conversation Concerning, … As a matter of fact … Actually, … The fact is …, As regards …, Speaking of …, In regard to …, Regarding …, The thing is … The trouble is … The point is … It comes as no surprise that … Small wonder that … It is not surprising that … It goes without saying that … It’s a self-evident that … It stands to reason that … To put it in a nutshell, … Moreover /what is more … Furthermore/ besides … To add to it … In addition … In a word … In a nutshell … In short … We can safely assume that … So as to / so that …

To make a long story short, … Summing it up, … So, to sum it up, … In conclusion … So far as we know … To the best of our knowledge … So (as) far as is known … It has long been known that … It’s well known that … It’s common knowledge … This problem has to do with /relates

to /is associated with /is connected with …

There is ample /abundant evidence that …

We have every reason to believe that …

This aspect is of fundamental /great /vital importance for …

Either way… As a rule… As well as… All the same… Such as …