Express your opinions vs Show your opinion

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Express your opinions' is more commonly used and implies a broader range of opinions being shared, while 'show your opinion' is less common and implies a more visual or demonstrative way of presenting one's opinion.

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Express your opinions

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to encourage someone to share their thoughts, viewpoints, or beliefs on a particular topic or issue.

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You express your opinions very decidedly.
I'll be interviewing everyone in due course so you'll have ample opportunity to express your opinions.
Unless your name is Mr Schulz, you have to use the explanations of vote to be able to express your opinions.
I shall give you the floor so you can express your opinion briefly.
I intend to present a new draft regulation by the end of the year, and I am sure you will be glad to express your opinion on it, given the extreme interest Parliament has so far shown in this subject.
I don't remember now... Didn't he urge you to express your opinion in writing?
Nevertheless, the Chair allowed you could express your opinion by using the explanation of vote for a different vote, which is equivalent to a flagrant breach of the Rules of Procedure.
Therefore, I invite you to express your democratic opinion on these facts.
I ask you, respected colleagues, to please express your categorical opinion on the matter before the Dutch authorities.
But an undisciplined appeal to history risks becoming a confusing way to express opinions.
It is true that the Internet offers a public platform for everyone to express opinions.
The Council has no competence to express opinions about Member States' national legislation.
I believe that Parliament should express its opinion clearly.
S&P's ratings express our opinion.
Disclosure of documents contrary to the express opinion of their author
And there is complete freedom in this Parliament to express opinions through the vote.
Freedom to express opinions is therefore absent. I am not even talking about the murder of three Christian publishers and a Catholic priest.
The report also contains a host of very bad proposals in areas in which the European Parliament should definitely not express opinions.
Over the next two or three days the European Parliament will be the only democratic body to be able to express opinions on the very important subject of economic and monetary union.
These arrests contravene Article 38 of the Syrian Constitution, which guarantees each citizen 'the right to freely and openly express opinions in speech and writing and by all other means of expression'.

Alternatives:

share your opinions
voice your opinions
state your opinions
communicate your opinions
articulate your opinions

Show your opinion

This phrase is correct but less commonly used in English.

This phrase can be used when asking someone to visually or demonstratively present their opinion, such as through actions or visual aids.

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That shows what your opinion of me is.
However, our debates here today show that opinion remains very divided.
Approving this amendment would show public opinion that we mean business.
We could thus very concretely show public opinion that we are fighting uncontrolled relocations, which are economically and socially unacceptable.
Your concern over public opinion shows a guilty conscience.
I think such dialogue would be extremely important to show public opinion that we are not creating an ivory tower but a body required to account for its actions before an institution such as the European Parliament.
Other opinion polls show that many feel they are inadequately informed about the content of the Constitution.
The visa issue shows that if public opinion demands it, then national leaders also have the capacity to act.
This report shows a strong political opinion in favour of tightening emissions from new cars.
A preliminary assessment of those opinions clearly shows there is overwhelming and impressive support for the policy.
It is an intractable subject and the fact that there are 126 amendments shows how divided opinion is, but at least it has led to a more realistic position.
This is because scientific opinions show that absorbing excessive quantities of certain vitamins and minerals may have undesirable or harmful effects.
The contempt we show for public opinion makes a mockery of our claim to be a 'Union of Values'.
Public opinion shows little interest, even if it involves people who share their religion, such as the Muslim boat refugees who ended up in Indonesia from Burma.
Opinion polls show that the British people, if given the chance, would reject this Constitution.
Mr President, a new opinion poll shows that, at present, only half the Danish population has heard of the draft European Constitution.
Opinion polls show that the majority of people support the idea that environmental issues are important and should be dealt with at European level.
Across the 27 Member States, he said, opinion polls show that a majority of citizens want a referendum on the Treaty.
Current opinion polls show that those who wish to keep their independence outnumber the Euro-Quislings and Europhiles nearly two to one.
In the multicultural and pluralistic European Union, people clearly find it difficult to show respect for different opinions.

Alternatives:

demonstrate your opinion
display your opinion
illustrate your opinion
manifest your opinion
present your opinion

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