GIVING YOUR OPINION

1. I THINK this is the best ice-cream.

2. I BELIEVE this is the best ice-cream.

3. I FEEL this is the best ice-cream.

4. WELL, I MUST SAY this is the best ice-cream.

5. IN MY OPINION this is the best ice-cream.

6. IF YOU ASK ME this is the best ice-cream.

7. PERSONALLY, I BELIEVE this is the best ice-cream.

8. TO MY MIND this is the best ice-cream.

9. AS I SEE IT this is the best ice-cream.

10. THE WAY I SEE IT this is the best ice-cream.

11. AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, I’D SAY THAT this is the best ice-cream.

12. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT this is the best ice-cream.

13. I’M CONVINCED THAT this is the best ice-cream.

14. I’M OF THE VIEW THAT this is the best ice-cream.

15. TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST, WHAT I RECKON IS THAT this is the best ice-cream.
AGREEING AND DISAGREEING

1. YES.

2. TRUE.

3. THAT’S RIGHT.

4. I DON’T THINK SO.

5. I CAN’T AGREE.

6. OH, DURELY NOT!

7. TRUE ENOUGH.

8. I ABSOLUTELY AGREE.

9. I COULDN’T AGREE MORE.

10. I’M NOT AT ALL SURE, ACTUALLY.

11. I DISAGREE, I’M AFRAID.

12. THAT’S NOT THE WAY I SEE IT.

13. THERE’S A LOT IN WHAT YOU SAY, BUT...

14. I’M OF EXACTLY THE SAME OPINION.

15. I’D GO ALONG WITH YOU THERE.

ASKING FOR INFORMATION

1. Where is the toilet, PLEASE?

2. CAN YOU HELP ME? Where is the toilet?

3. EXCUSE ME, where is the toilet?

4. CAN YOU TELL ME where the toilet is?

5. COULD YOU TELL ME where the toilet is?

6. EXCUSE ME! DO YOU KNOW where the toilet is?

7. I’D LIKE TO KNOW where the toilet is.

8. DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW where the toilet is?

9. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, BUT DO YOU KNOW where the toilet is?

10. CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME INFORMATION ABOUT where the toilet is?

11. COULD YOU GIVE ME ANY INFORMATION ABOUT where the toilet is?

12. I HOPE YOU DON’T MIND MY ASKING, BUT where is the toilet?

13. I WONDER IF YOU COULD TELL ME where the toilet is?

14. I WONDER IF YOU COULD LET ME KNOW where the toilet is?

15. I’D BE INTERESTED TO KNOW where the toilet is?

ASKING FOR PERMISSION

1. CAN I borrow your pen?

2. COULD I borrow your pen, PLEASE?

3. MAY I borrow your pen?

4. OK IF I borrow your pen?

5. LET ME borrow your pen, OK?

6. DO YOU THINK I COULD borrow your pen?

7. I WONDER IF I COULD borrow your pen?

8. I WAS WONDERING IF I COULD borrow your pen?

9. ANY CHANCE OF borrowing your pen?

10. DO YOU MIND IF I borrow your pen?

11. MAY I HAVE YOUR PERMISSION to borrow your pen?

12. I HOPE YOU DON’T MIND MY ASKING IF I CAN borrow your pen?

13. DO YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTION TO MY borrowing your pen?

14. WITH YOUR PERMISSION I WOULD LIKE TO borrow your pen

GIVING ADVICE

1. YOU SHOULD go on a diet.

2. WHY DON’T YOU go on a diet?

3. TAKE MY ADVICE AND go on a diet.

4. YOU HAD BETTER go on a diet.

5. YOU OUGHT TO go on a diet.

6. I RECKON YOU SHOULD go on a diet.

7. IF I WERE YOU, I WOULD go on a diet.

8. YOU MIGHT WANT TO go on a diet.

9. IT MIGHT BE AN IDEA TO go on a diet.

10. THE WAY I SEE IT, YOU SHOULD go on a diet.

11. IF YOU FOLLOW MY ADVICE, YOU’LL go on a diet.

12. I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT YOU SHOULD go on a diet.

13. IF I WERE IN YOUR POSITION, I WOULD DEFINITELY go on a diet.

14. IT MIGHTN’T BE A BAD IDEA TO go on a diet.

15. IF I WERE IN YOUR SHOES, I’D go on a diet.

COMPLAINING

1. I WANT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT the room.

2. I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER.

3. I WISH TO MAKE A COMPLAIN ABOUT the room.

4. I AM AFRAID the room is MOST UNSATISFACTORY.

5. I AM AFRAID the room JUST ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH.

6. CAN YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT the room?

7. The room JUST WON’T DO!

8. I’M SORRY TO SAY THIS, BUT the room is terrible.

9. The room REALLY IS THE LIMIT!

10. I AM NOT AT ALL SATISFIED WITH the room.

11. LOOK, I’VE JUST ABOUT HAD ENOUGH OF THIS.

12. FOR GOODNESS SAKE! I AM FED UP WITH ALL THIS.

13. IF YOU DON’T DO SOMETHING RIGHT AWAY, YOU LEAVE ME WITH LITTLE
ALTERNATIVE BUT TO REPORT YOU TO THE AUTHORITIES.

14. I WISH TO COMPLAIN IN THE STRONGEST TERMS ABOUT the room.

15. FAR BE IT FROM ME TO RESORT TO THREATS, BUT I AM AFRAID I WILL BE FORCED

TO PUT THE MATTER IN THE HANDS OF OUR SOLICITORS.
EXPRESSING EMOTIONS

1. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR the invitation.

2. I AM REALLY VERY GRATEFUL TO YOU FOR the invitation.

3. I REALLY CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR the invitation.

4. CONGRATULATIONS ON on winning!

5. LET ME CONGRATULATE YOU ON on winning!

6. PLEASE ACCEPT MY HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS on winning.

7. I’M SORRY TO HEAR THAT you have failed.

8. OH DEAR, WHAT A PITY! YOU MUST BE VERY UPSET THAT you have failed.

9. I WAS MOST UPSET TO LEARN THAT you have failed. I DO SYMPHATIZE, I ASSURE YOU

10. I’M NOT SO SURE ABOUT our success.

11. TO TELL THE TRUTH, I’M RATHER DOUBTFUL ABOUT our success.

12. I DON’T WANT TO SOUND TOO PESSIMISTIC, BUT I HAVE TO SAY I DON’T HOLD
OUT MUCH HOPE FOR our success.

13. FANTASTIC! THAT’S GOOD NEWS!

14. HOW MARVELLOUS! I’M REALLY DELIGHTED ABOUT their success.

15. I CAN’T SAY HOW PLEASED I AM ABOUT their success.

16. OH NO! HOW IRRITATING!

17. WHAT A NUISANCE! THAT REALLY MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL.

18. HOW INFURIATING! I MUST SAY THIS IS EXTREMELY ANNOYING.

19. OH, THAT’ A RELIEF’

20. WHEW! THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT!

21. OH, THANK HEAVENS! THAT’S A WEIGHT OFF MY MIND.

INVITING

1. WOULD YOU LIKE TO have dinner with me?

2. CAN I INVITE YOU TO have dinner with me?

3. MAY I INVITE YOU TO have dinner with me?

4. I’D VERY MUCH LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO have dinner with me.

5. I’D LIKE YOU TO have dinner with me.

6. SHALL WE have dinner together?

7. WHAT ABOUT having dinner with me?

8. DO YOU FANCY having dinner with me?

9. WON’T YOU have dinner with me?

10. PERHAPS YOU’D CARE TO have dinner with me?

11. PLEASE DO have dinner with me!

12. I’D LIKE NOTHING BETTER THAN TO have dinner with you.

13. I WOULD BE PLEASED IF YOU COULD have dinner with me.

14. I SHOULD BE DELIGHTED IF YOU WERE ABLE TO have dinner with me?

15. I TAKE PLEASURE IN INVITING YOU TO A DINNER.

OFFERING

1. WOULD YOU LIKE a sandwich?

2. HAVE a sandwich!

3. WILL YOU HAVE a sandwich?

4. WON’T YOU HAVE a sandwich?

5. SHALL I GET YOU a sandwich?

6. CAN I OFFER YOU a sandwich?

7. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO a sandwich?

8. WHY DON’T YOU HAVE a sandwich?

9. HELP YOURSELF TO a sandwich!

10. WOULD YOU CARE FOR a sandwich?

11. DO HAVE a sandwich!

12. COULD I PASS YOU a sandwich?

13. I WONDER IF I COULD OFFER YOU a sandwich?

14. PLEASE ALLOW ME TO OFFER YOU a sandwich.

OTHER FUNCTIONS

1. PLEASE DON’T FORGET to post the letter.

2. I’D LIKE TO REMIND YOU to post the letter.

3. YOU WON’T FORGET to post the letter, WILL YOU?

4. ARE YOU SURE ABOUT the train’s departure time?

5. ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN ABOUT the train’s departure time?

6. FORGIVE ME, BUT IS THERE NO DOUBT IN YOUR MIND ABOUT the train’s departure time?

7. I HOPE she will recover soon.

8. WE MUST HOPE FOR her recovery.

9. LET’S HOPE she will recover soon. KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED.

10. I LIKE sailing.

11. I AM KEEN ON sailing.

12. I’M REALLY FOND OF sailing.

13. I DON’T LIKE fishing.

14. I CAN’T STAND fishing.

15. I HAVE TO ADMIT I HAVE A PARTICULAR A VERSION TO fishing.

16. I’M NOT GOING TO get married.

17. I DON’T INTEND TO get married

18. I HAVE NO INTENTION WHATSOEVER OF getting married.

19. COULD YOU give me a hand, PLEASE?

20. WOULD YOU MIND giving me a hand, PLEASE?

21. I’D BE VERY GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULDWOULD give me a hand.