English Vocabulary for ESL learners
USEFUL PHRASES AND EXPRESSIONS
AGREEMENT - DISAGREEMENT
How to express agreement or disagreement.
Do you sometimes find it difficult to express agreement or disagreement in a polite way?
Here are some phrases and expressions that will help you.
- AGREEING and DISAGREEING
- Agreeing:
- I tend to agree with you.
- That's a good idea.
- I'm with you on that point.
- I'll go along with that.
- Absolutely! I agree with your point.
- I totally agree with that idea/proposal.
- I hold exactly the same view.
- I couldn't agree more.
- You're dead right.
- That's absolutely true.
- That's just what I was thinking.
- That's spot on.
- That's exactly my position.
- You've hit the nail on the head!
- That's how I see it too / how I feel too.
- Disagreeing:
- I see things differently.
- I tend to disagree with that idea.
- I agree up to a point. However ...
- You have a point there, but ...
- Sorry, but I think you've missed the point.
- You could be right. However ...
- The idea is worth considering, but ...
- Perhaps a weakness of this is that ...
- Well, I'm not sure of that because ...
- That might be acceptable if ...
- I'm afraid I don't agree / I disagree.
- I strongly / totally disapprove of the plan.
- I'm absolutely against the proposal.
- Agreeing:
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