Vocabulary for expressing one’s opinion, writing a comment, etc I think I believe I suppose I assume (formal) Name Class _ Date _/ _/ from my point of view in my opinion my impression of the story/text is … argument I am (strongly) in favour of the writer’s opinion arguments in favour of sth I agree with … I not/cannot agree with … I have to contradict the author I would suggest there are several aspects to this question on the one hand … on the other hand the main points are … the essential point is … it seems obvious that … it is questionable / doubtful whether … it is (very) likely / unlikely that … … is comparable to … the writer argues that … one could argue in favour of sth one could argue against sth pros and cons arguments against sth a strong argument a weak argument to summarize the arguments … to come to a conclusion evidence to mention sth to conclude from sth from the evidence I mentioned I conclude that … to resolve a dispute it appears to me … it is important to mention … I would like to add … so all in all I believe that … (in) summing up it can be said that … weighing the pros and cons, I come to the conclusion that …