The art of persuasion

Лексика

• 说服to persuade
• 论据argument / reasoning
• 倒不如说it would be more accurate to say
• 更何况all the more so / let alone
• 再说moreover / besides
• 要是…就…if… then…
• 毕竟after all
• 显而易见obviously / evidently
• 不可否认undeniably
• 足以证明sufficient to prove
• 观点viewpoint / opinion
• 理由reason / justification
• 坚持to insist / to persist
• 反驳to refute / to counter

Выражения

• 要是…就…To present a conditional scenario and its consequence
• 更何况To add an even stronger supporting argument
• 倒不如说To politely reframe or correct a previous statement
• 再说To add one more supporting reason
• 毕竟To invoke an undeniable truth at the end of an argument
• 显而易见To present something as self-evident
• 不可否认To acknowledge a fact the other person cannot dispute
• 足以证明To conclude that evidence supports your point

Типичные ошибки

• ✗要是你来，我就很高兴了。
  ✓要是你来，我就很高兴。

  In a 要是…就… structure, do not add 了 at the end. The conditional already implies a hypothetical — 了 is redundant.

• ✗更何况他是一个专家，所以我们应该听他。
  ✓更何况他是一个专家，我们更应该听他。

  更何况 already escalates the argument — 所以 is redundant. Keep the escalating logic implicit.

• ✗毕竟，但是他还是错的。
  ✓毕竟，他还是错的。

  毕竟 and 但是 cannot be combined at the start of a clause — they serve different logical functions.

• ✗这足以证明了我的观点。
  ✓这足以证明我的观点。

  足以证明 is a fixed expression followed directly by the object. The 了 is grammatically incorrect here.

• ✗倒不如说是，这是一个机会。
  ✓倒不如说，这是一个机会。

  Remove the extra 是 after 倒不如说. The structure is 倒不如说 + full clause, not 倒不如说是 + noun.

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