Avoid blunt responses

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just fail you

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immediately for the whole exam they'll

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just close their books get up and walk

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out and say you failed

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obviously that's an exaggeration but you

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really want to try to avoid making that

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mistake

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remember i agree i disagree the second

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thing i want to say is that

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when you agree with someone you can be

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quite emphatic

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because it's it's nice to agree it's

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good it's positive so you can be a

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little bit exaggerated or

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um very emphatic but when you disagree

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you have to be a little bit more

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diplomatic

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because you don't want to risk offending

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the other person

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or creating an uncomfortable situation

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so as we'll see in the examples the

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expressions for agreeing are quite

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emphatic the expressions for

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disagreeing are more diplomatic now a

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very simple way of agreeing

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quite emphatically is just to say 100

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percent

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now of course the whole expression the

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whole sentence would be i agree with you

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100 percent

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but often in modern english we don't say

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the full expression it's not necessary

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just say 100

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so if your partner says we need to

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reduce our carbon footprint you could

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say

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100 percent so it's just to show you're

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agreeing

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completely with what