{"id":73284,"date":"2020-03-23T08:07:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73284"},"modified":"2020-03-23T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:07:52","slug":"expressing-your-opinion-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/expressing-your-opinion-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressing Your Opinion In English"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Stating your opinion<\/h3>\n<p>There are very many ways to express your opinion in English. In this article we will focus on some of them.<\/p>\n<p><b>Expressing your opinion<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I think you are right.<\/li>\n<li>I feel she is making a mistake.<\/li>\n<li>I reckon \/ think \/ feel \/ guess she doesn\u2019t love you.<\/li>\n<li>In my opinion \/ in my view, this is not the right thing to do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Expressing your opinion in a less direct way<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I kind of think that you are making a mistake.<\/li>\n<li>I sort of think that she should have resigned earlier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Softening or correcting your opinion<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I won\u2019t talk to you again. Well, that\u2019s to say, not unless you give me my money back.<\/li>\n<li>Ghosts don\u2019t exist. At least, I haven\u2019t seen one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Making a polite refusal<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m afraid I can\u2019t help you at the moment.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m afraid I can\u2019t lend you my car.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Making polite enquiries<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I suppose you are very busy at the moment? (Polite way of asking \u2018Are you busy at the moment?\u2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Making things clear<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018I\u2019m sorry. I mean, I didn\u2019t want to offend you.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018I\u2019m not working for you again.\u2019 \u2018Well, that\u2019s to say, not unless you give me my raise.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Showing your attitude<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honestly, I didn\u2019t think that he would win.<\/li>\n<li>To be honest, I am not at all impressed with your idea.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018What do you think of my nail color?\u2019 \u2018Frankly, my dear, it is a disaster.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>To be frank, I didn\u2019t like what you said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stating your opinion There are very many ways to express your opinion in English. In this article we will focus on some of them. Expressing your opinion I think you are right. I feel&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,2120],"class_list":["post-73284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-english-speaking-lessons","tag-english-speaking-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73285,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73284\/revisions\/73285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}