How to express my attitude towards a thing? treat, view, see, regard [closed]

Solution 1:

In the sentence

I ______ the delivery fee as a cost of saved time,

all of the four you gave, treat, view, see, and regard, fit grammatically and are semantically appropriate but they do have their individual nuances.

First, 'see' is the most natural and the most casual. It is not informal, it is just the least rare and least academic sounding.

Then 'view', which is almost identical semantically to 'see', is the next least academic.

'Treat' and 'regard' are both the most formal, 'regard' being a bit high register because of its romance connections, and 'treat' because of its vague metaphor. Also 'treat' is more active in its conception of the object - the others are just registering a feature.

There are other synonyms that work here: 'consider', 'recognize', 'think of', 'conceive of', 'equate...with', 'understand', and many more that might work.

The most natural and straightforward sounding would be:

I consider the delivery fee as a cost of saved time.

or

I see the delivery fee as a cost of saved time.