How to express your opinion in English

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Hi, my name is Rebecca, and in today's lesson I'll show you how to express your opinion
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in English. Now, this is important whether you're participating in a conversation, a
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debate, or a discussion, or whether you're writing a report, or an evaluation, or proposal;
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you're still going to need various types of phrases and expressions to express your view.
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So let's look at what some of these expressions are. Okay?
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So, here are some of the most common ones. Now, the one at the top is probably the strongest,
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and the one down here is the weakest. So let's go through them.
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You could say: "I think the government should keep university
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free." for example. Or: "I believe..." Next one: "I feel..." Or: "I suppose the government
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should keep university free." Now, you see with my body language, here, it's a little
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bit weaker. So you say: "I suppose the government should keep university free." But this kind
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of body language kind of suggests that you're not very sure, but you think so. All right?
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Last one is very weak, but you could use it if you have... If you believe it a little
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bit. Okay? In that position. "I guess the government should keep university free." Right?
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It's weak, but it's acceptable. All right? Again, these are the stronger options.
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Here are some other expressions: "In my opinion, we should accept their offer."
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Or: "In my view, we should accept their offer." Okay? So you could also use any of these,
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in my opinion. Now, remember: here, we don't need any kind of punctuation after: "I think".
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It just goes directly: "I think the government should keep university free." But here, we
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do have a comma. Okay? So: "In my opinion," - comma - or: "In my view," - comma -, that's
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important when you're writing. Okay? Next one:
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"From my viewpoint," or: "From my point of view," or: "From my perspective, it's time
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to make a decision." Okay? Again, with each of these, remember: there is a comma after
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that expression. Okay? Next one:
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"According to me, the Prime Minister should resign." Okay?
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Or: "It seems to me that you should take the job."
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All right? So these are some other expressions. Now,
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that's a lot of expressions so what you want to do is to choose the expressions that you
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like. Perhaps these could be this... The sort of translation of the expressions that you
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use in your own language because you probably like those expressions. So learn a few of
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them correctly, rather than trying to learn all of them and getting them mixed up. Okay?
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So you don't want to say: "From my opinion," or something like that. So it's better to
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learn a few of them and use them correctly. All right?
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If you'd like some more practice with this, you can go to our website: www.engvid.com
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and there you can do a quiz on this subject and also watch English learning videos on
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lots of other topics in English. Okay? Thanks very much for watching, and good luck with your English.
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