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Opinions:

1.Sandra says: "I don't trust Terry."

2.Peter tells her: "My advice is to stay out of it."

3.Sandra answers: "At least she would know!"

4.Peter concludes: "It's none of your business."

Functions:

1.Simple present

2.Simple present

3.Conditional present

4.Idiom

Argumentations:

Sandra sad she didn't trust Terry because she had never liked him; Peter advised Sandra to stay out of that problem because if she tells Carol she will be really upset.

But Sandra thought that at least she would know because if her boyfriend had done something like that she would have known about that.

Peter doesn't agree and told Sandra that that wasn't none of her business, he added that if she get involved she will be sorry.

Functions:

In the first  argumentation of Sandra's opinion is used the present perfect and in the first argumentation of Peter's opinion is used the first type's hypothetic.

In the second argumentations Sandra used a second type's hypothetic and Peter used a first type's  hypothetic.