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Legal Linking Words

This document discusses vocabulary used in legal English documents, specifically sentence adverbs and adverbials that are commonly placed at the beginning of sentences to connect them to the overall text. It provides a list of these terms, including accordingly, alternatively, as a result, as a whole, clearly, coincidentally, and conversely among others, that can help write clear legal English.

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Legal Linking Words

This document discusses vocabulary used in legal English documents, specifically sentence adverbs and adverbials that are commonly placed at the beginning of sentences to connect them to the overall text. It provides a list of these terms, including accordingly, alternatively, as a result, as a whole, clearly, coincidentally, and conversely among others, that can help write clear legal English.

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07Chap05 03/07/2005 10:26 AM Page 55

Chapter 5 Marketing agreements

Vocabulary
It is fairly common in legal English for adverbs to be placed at the beginning of a sentence
as a means of connecting the sentence to the rest of the text. You have come across
some of these in the course of considering the legal documentation in this chapter. There
are a number of such sentence adverbs and adverbials which will assist you in writing
clear legal English, including the following expressions.

Accordingly Hereinafter Meanwhile


Alternatively Hereinbefore Moreover
As a result Hereof Nevertheless
As a whole Hereunder Nonetheless
Clearly However On the contrary
Coincidentally In addition Overall
Conversely In all the circumstances Primarily
Equally In any event Secondly
Finally In conclusion Significantly
Fundamentally In consequence thereof Similarly
Furthermore In contrast Subsequently
Further or alternatively In essence Therefore
Henceforth In particular Thereto
Hereby In so far as Thus
Herein In summary Whereby

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