Language of Advice and Suggestions: Common Expressions and Their Uses, Resúmenes de Inglés

¡Descarga Language of Advice and Suggestions: Common Expressions and Their Uses y más Resúmenes en PDF de Inglés solo en Docsity! USEFUL LANGUAGE – SITUATIONS GIVING ADVICE If I were you, I would… Have you thought about…? You really ought to… Why don’t you…? In your position, I would… You should/could perhaps… I (don’t) think you should… ASKING FOR ADVICE I´m not sure what to do… Could you give me some advice about…? Do you think I should…? What would you recommend…? I´d like some advice about… What would you do if you were me? MAKING SUGGESTIONS Why don’t we …? We could… What/How about … (verb -ing)? Let’s… I suggest we… AGREEING WITH SUGGESTIONS That´s a good idea! What a good idea! That sounds like a very good idea! Yes, why not! Yes, let´s … DISAGREEING WITH SUGGESTIONS I don´t think it is a very good idea. That doesn´t sound like a very good idea to me. SHOWING PREFERENCES I’d rather … I’d prefer … If it were up to me, I’d … I think we should… GIVING OPINIONS I think … Personally speaking, … In my opinion, … As far as I’m concerned, … AGREEING I quite / absolutely / entirely agree with you/that. I think you are (absolutely) right. DISAGREEING I see what you mean, but… I suppose you can be right but… I agree with much / most of what you say, but… I´m sorry but I don´t agree with that. I´m afraid I have to disagree with that. You can´t be serious. I think that´s nonsense. APOLOGISING I’m sorry . I didn’t mean to … Please, accept my apologies for … (+ing) I’m sorry. I made a mistake and … ASKING FOR PERMISSION Can/Could/May I …? Would it be alright if …? REFUSING INVITATIONS I’d like/love to, but … That’s very kind of you, but… Maybe another time? I really appreciate your invitation, but … I wish I could, but… Sorry, but I’m not very ​fond of​/​keen on​… ACCEPTING INVITATIONS That sounds very nice… Thank you so much. That´s very kind of you… Lovely! / That´s great! / Wonderful! …