Transitions Chart
Size Transitions
The largest Larger than The smallest The small-sized The tallest
The next largest Equal to The next smallest The medium-sized The shortest
The smallest Smaller than The largest The largest-sized
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Time Transitions
First, Now At the beginning of Thereafter, By this time Before
Then, Soon In the middle of Presently, At the same time In the meantime
Next, Then At the end of After a short time, At that instant Meanwhile
At last, Later Soon thereafter, Immediately, During
Simultaneously, Afterwards
First, In the morning, Yesterday, The first
Second, Before noon, Today, A more recent
Third, In the afternoon, Tomorrow The most recent
Finally, In the evening, The day after tomorrow,
In the past, The next day, This year, The earliest
In the present, Two weeks later, Next year, The next earliest
In the future, Six months later, In the next few years The most recent
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Space Transitions
behind on the edge of beside in front of west of high
over toward around facing east of against
under throughout near in back of north of alongside
below to the right of side by side in the center south of ahead of
beneath to the left of close to inside at the here
low down on top of next to outside in there
on the bottom at the top down at the end of on beyond
on the corner by up between above farther on
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Importance Transitions
The best The most important The first The best
The next best Equally important More important than The next best
The least best The next important Most important The worst
The least important
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Chain-Link Transitions
On the one hand, One example of In the first place, In other words, The first
On the other hand, For instance, In the second place, In fact, The second
Another example In the third place, Also, The third
Again, A further example
Besides, For another example,
Moreover, For example, One Because First,
Another Since Second,
Still another A further As Third,
In addition, Further, Still, Specifically
In the same way, Furthermore, While More specifically
In fact, Instead In particular,
The opposite of _is_ Additionally,
On the contrary side Lastly, The last Indeed, As a result,
To the contrary, Similar to _is_ Last Although Consequently,
In contrast, Another similar _is_ Even though Naturally
In spite of Likewise, Nevertheless, Even if After all,
Despite the Similarly, Nonetheless,
A dissimilar _is_
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Concluding Transitions
To conclude In sum, To sum up As you can see,
In conclusion, In brief, To summarize, As a result,
In summary, In short, Therefore, Finally,
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