Opinion & Thought

Opinion

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How are you? I hope all of you still healthy in this moment.  Now, i would like to tell you about opinion and thought in the next blog.  It's about the definition, formula, and others. And also, i will give the examples of each sentences. Alright, Let's check this out!

Opinion

What is opinion? Quoted from lexico, opinion is a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. Meanwhile, according to Oxford opinion is your feelings or thoughts about somebody or something, rather than a fact. So, from the explanation above, it can be seen that the opinion is not a concrete fact. But, opinion is just an view or judgment from someone to something. The purpose of expressing opinion is to express opinions, ideas or concept from the point of view of others about a phenomenon (topic of discussion) that is happening. 

We can use the expression of opinion at times when we are negotiating, expressing opinions, or just chatting with a friend, we often say/express agree or disagree with others. But we don't fight for our own opinions, so we must know how to show empathy with different opinions and also disagree without sounding aggressive so that the ongoing conversation seems monotonous.

Characteristics of opinion, such as:

1. Containing Personal Opinion or Others Opinion
2. Subjective Nature
3. Using Relative Words
4. Cannot be proven true
5. No Resource or Source
6. Usually shows something that doesn't necessarily happen
7. Contains Responses to an Event

Examples of formulas that can be used to giving opinions, such as:

1. In my experience …
2. Speaking for myself …
3. Personally, I think …
4. I believe that …
5. I really feel that …
6. If you ask me ...
7. In my opinion…
8. Some people say that…
9. Many/Most people think/believe that …
10. Everybody knows that …
11. According to scientists …
12. The thing is that …
13. The point is that …

Examples of formulas that can be used to asking opinions, such as:

1. What about ... ?
2. How do you feel about … ?
3. How do you like ?
4. How was the … ?
5. Do you have an idea ?
6. How do you feel about this ?
7. What do you think of … ?
8. What is your opinion of … ?
9. What are your views on … ?
10. What are your feelings about … ?

Example :

1. Everyone knows that technology of this year is getting more sophisticated and everyone uses it
2. Personally, i think your food is a little bit salty
3. In my experience if you follow the recipe well, then your dish will be nice and tasty
4. Some people say that math is easier than chemistry
5. I believe that age will not be able to prevent us from doing something great
6. I strongly believe that taking away our local bus will have serious consequences for the people who live here

Examples of accepting and rejecting opinions :

1. I don’t think I care for it
2. I don’t think much of it
3. I think that would be awful
4. I think you’re wrong
5. Absolutely not!
6. No way!
7. I strongly disagree…
8. I simply can’t agree to this
9. I think of the opposite
10. I have a different opinion about it
11. Exactly
12. I agree
13. That’s true
14. I wouldn’t say it better
15. I couldn’t agree more
16. You’re perfectly right
17. That’s just what I was thinking
18. I’m of the same opinion

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