How to Ask and Give Opinions

Overview

The material discusses how to ask, give, and respond to opinions in English, along with examples of expressions and their linguistic elements.

There are three categories of expressions: asking, giving, and responding to opinions.
Asking for opinion: used to ask for someone else's opinion.
Examples of asking: What do you think about...? How do you feel about...? What is your opinion of...?
Giving opinion: used to express personal opinions.
Examples of giving: I think..., In my opinion..., I believe..., For me..., In my point of view...
Responding opinion: used to give responses, either agreeing or disagreeing.
Agreement (agree): Of course, I agree with this opinion. This is absolutely right. That's a good point.
Disagreement (disagree): I'm sorry, I don't agree with you. I disagree with you. I don't think so.

Example 1: "How is your opinion about smoking?" "I don't agree. For me, it is important that people do not smoke."
Example 2: "What do you think?" "I'm sorry, I think it's out of style."
Example 3: "Apa pandangan Anda?" "Saya benar-benar pikir aktor memiliki kemampuan bertindak yang bagus."

The tense often used is the Simple Present Tense.
Simple Present Tense uses the base form of the verb or is/am/are for nominal sentences.
Opinion verbs (a-transverb) such as need, think, suppose, agree, disagree are used.
Modal verbs such as need, should, will are also often used.

Asking for opinion — Expressions used to ask for opinions.
Giving opinion — Expressions used to give personal opinions.
Responding opinion — Expressions used to respond to others' opinions (agree or disagree).
Simple Present Tense — The tense used to express habits or facts.
Modal verbs — Auxiliary verbs such as need, should, will.