As a part-time teacher, I occasionally get a chance to explain a “Fact or Opinion” lesson to elementary school children. The idea, of course, is to help them distinguish one from the other.
How can one decide what is a fact and what is an opinion? This is how I sum it up: A fact can be proven – it’s true. An opinion, which can be neither correct or incorrect, is a person’s belief about what is true or false, or about what is right or wrong, or about what is good or bad.
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