Blending options for opacity?

I have a shape selected on my artboard and I change the opacity of it and am selecting from the different opacity blending styles, and do not notice a difference from the different options, such as overlay and multiply when I have the opacity lowered. How do these options work with the opacity slider?
Thanks.

Place the object on top of another object or text screen and then go through the different options and see the effect.
You do not need to even give it any transparency to see the effect

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