How to 'Give your Opinion'

So, in a world of people firing out opinions left, right and center, how do I go about getting mine heard? And here, once again, is a list of useful sentence starters that will immediately convey your attitude, get others to listen, and prepare them for what comes next...

Giving your Opinion

• In my opinion / view...
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• Generally speaking, I think...
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• Personally, I haven’t the faintest idea about / whether...      (starting with this
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•  expression may be interpreted as off-hand and could suggest that you have
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•  nothing else to say!)
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• To my mind...
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• I’d just like to say...
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• As far as I’m concerned...
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• I’m quite convinced that...(only use this expression to express a very strong opinion!)
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• To be quite honest / frank...
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• If you ask me...

Finally, I’d just like to say that the negative of ‘I think he does...’ sounds more

 natural as ‘I don’t think he does...’ rather than ‘I think he doesn’t...’ The latter is not

 necessarily wrong, it just sounds less natural, in my opinion.

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