Personally/ As far as I am concerned/ As I see it, I...

[kachibi]

Context: oral discussion in school.

When giving opinions, we sometimes start with "personally", "as far as I am concerned", "as I see it", etc. I remember someone told me that they cannot be followed with "I" because it sounds redundant:

Personally, I will not drive to work.
As far as I am concerned, I think this is dreadful.
As I see it, I agree with what Peter has said that...

Is there really such a taboo?

 

[UpWeston’s]

In fact, the situation is quite the opposite. The inclusion of I is absolutely necessary in each case - without it, these sentences would not make sense.

 

[kachibi]

Okay, but how about "I think"? Usually people say it is redundant to say "I think" after those sentence starters.

 

[Hermione Golightly]

There should be a taboo against starting with those expressions! If you do you might have to change what follows to avoid using 'I' again, which is poor style.
Personally, I will not drive to work.
As far as I am concerned, I think this is dreadful.
As I see it, I agree with what Peter has said.

 

[bearded]

The inclusion of I is absolutely necessary in each case -

Oh really? So you would say "As I see it, I agree..." ?

 

[UpWeston’s]

Oh really? So you would say "As I see it, I agree..." ?

I would not say that, no, but it doesn’t seem ungrammatical. I agree with what Hermione said above. It’s a bit odd stylistically. If you agree with something/think something, you are expressing an opinion from your point of view. “As I see it” isn’t necessary, then, because it’s already implied by I agree, I think etc.

Whether or not you’d hear this structure in everyday speech is a different matter. I think you probably would, but I’d be interested to see what others think.