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C Expressing Opinions and Building Arguments

There must be a different point of view related to a certain topic. Therefore, we
need to learn how to express our opinion by building the good arguments to strengthen
our point of view. The following tables are the examples of those expressions. We use
these to express our opinion and make it stronger by building the arguments to support
or to neglect a certain topic in a formal way.

Giving Opinion:
Giving your opinion

 I think... / I don’t think ...
 I believe... / I don’t believe ...
 In my opinion,
 For me,
 Personally, I think ...
 From my point of view …
 To my mind, …
 I have no doubt that …
 It’s quite clear that …

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Taken and adapted from: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/speaking-exams/opinions

Clauses to Build Arguments
Pro (Support a proposal)

 By the abundant evidences, it is  Seeing the fact on ... nowadays, I
only fair to say... believe that they should...
 The prevalence of … has reassured  Based on the reasons I have
me that... mentioned, It is really justifiable
 From what we have seen in the to...
status quo, I couldn’t agree more  Creating this regulation for ... can be
to... very beneficial.
 The policy on...can create a better  The fact that ... has led me to
condition to... support this proposal
Taken and adapted from: https://www.thoughtco.com/preparing-an-argument-essay-1689647
Con (Oppose a proposal)
 Looking at the recent  Following the rules made by ...
condition, it is not fair to will only make ... suffer

decide...  Why don’t we ... instead of ...
 What happens right now is that  What is good from ... if we are
the regulation on ... has created still lack of ...
worse condition to ...  I am not sure that the evidences
 The policy of ... won’t create
are enough to conclude that ...

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