Discussion Phrases
These expressions help you to bring in further aspects:
How to change the subject?
- (Oh) by the way,…
- Before I forget,…
- I just thought of something…
- There’s something else I wanted to ask you / say…
- Oh, now I know what I wanted to say / ask you…
- I know this has got nothing to do with what we are talking about, but…
- Could I just say… (before I forget…)
- Let’s also consider…
- While I think of it,…
How to return to the original subject?
- As I was saying,…
- (Now) what was I saying / what were we talking about?
- To get back to what we were talking about,…
- Let’s get back to…
- (Yes, well) anyway,…
- Let’s get back to the point…
- But we digress…
- Where were we before we got on to this topic?