GROUP DISCUSSION 
SENTENCE STARTERS FOR GROUP DISCUSSION  
Now what is a group discussion? It is one of the elimination round in 
the interview process where 8 to 12 participants speak about a 
given topic. Now when you speak about a given topic you have to 
discuss your opinions using certain sentences. You have to make 
sure that you are always professional while discussing about the 
topic. So today we are going to look into certain sentences you can 
use to give out your opinion to disagree with participants or agree 
with participants. There, so let us look into it one by one. The first 
one is initiation. You can definitely go ahead and start initiating the 
topic in case you are strong with the content. So if you're strong with 
the content you can start your initiation by defining the main term 
in the topic. There you can also initiate by stating certain facts if you 
are aware of that. But make sure that your facts are very accurate 
when you are initiating. You can use the terms like in my opinion or 
you can also say that in today's world and so on. So this is how you 
initiate a particular topic of a group discussion. The second one is 
when you agree to a participant. When you agree with the 
participant the sentences that you can use are ‘I agree with my 
friend’ or ‘I do feel the same as my friend’, ‘think you're completely 
right’, ‘I second you on that opinion’, ‘I too feel the same’. These are 
the few sentences you can use while you agree with a person. The 
next one is disagreeing with a person. When you disagree with a 
participant, make sure you do not be very aggressive. Control your 
emotions but at the same time be energetic. So what are the 
sentences you can use? Just the opposite of what we have used for 
agreeing. For example, you can say, I did not or I can't support your 
point of view. You can also use, I oppose your point of view. The 
other things you can use- I think differently or I have a different 
opinion on that. These are the few sentences you can use. Now for 
example, if the person has given a particular fact which is not right, 
you can also use this particular sentence, like I am afraid that's not 
right. Moving on to the next one is interruption. It's very important 
that you interrupt a person if the person is elaborating a particular 
main point too much. So how do you interrupt the person? Simply 
by saying, sorry I wish to interrupt you there, sorry to interrupt you 
there. So add a sorry in front of the sentence so that the person 
doesn't mind you interrupting him or her. The next one is when you 
partially agree with a person. You can simply say, I agree with you to 
some extent but and so on. You continue with your topic, you can 
also use your right, however and so on. These are the few 
statements you can use to partially agree with a person. You may 
also want to add few points at times so when you wish to add a few 
points. You can say, you're correct, to that I would like to add some 
points or in additional to that and you add a few points that. So 
these are the few things you can use in different phases of the group 
discussion for initiating, agreeing, disagreeing, interrupting, 
partially agree, and adding few points.