Functions and notions

Opinion

We can use the following expressions to convey opinions.

• In my opinion this is the best solution.
• In my view we have no choice.
• Frankly, I think this is a great idea.
• Honestly, I don't know how you do it.
• I reckon this is the best way to do it.
• I'll bet that not even Leonardo could have predicted that half a millennium after he'd painted the famed Mona Lisa, it would still be making news.
• There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that being in the vicinity of any object he made, even down to the roughest, tossed-off sketch, is a special privilege.
• You'd think it would be easy to do this stuff, but very few artists do it well.
• It could be argued that she is a lot saner than those of us who persist in butting heads with idiots for a far smaller allocation of crust when we could be decorating the world with bright colours instead.