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The act of expressing gratitude is a fundamental part of building and maintaining social relationships. Expressive statements are used in both formal and informal registers to mark the sense of reciprocity toward a favor or any act of kindness provided. We tend to use a particular form of formalistic gratitude verbiage to people with whom …

  For some people, responding to a compliment can be really difficult. Even though a compliment is meant to make you feel good, some people feel anxious or awkward when they get one because they don’t know what to say. Your instinct might even be to downplay the compliment. While this might just feel like …

People send and receive emails all the time, which means that email writing has become a staple skill in the business world. Upon receiving emails, we get prompted to respond by acknowledging email receipt – a mundane yet crucial business etiquette. In fact, the expression “well received” is one of the most commonly used responses …

The way we write emails in business correspondence determines how well we can convey our thoughts in formal settings. Even more so, how we communicate, whether effectively or not, helps in painting and shaping our so-called “identities.” “Thank you very much for your email” is probably one of the most routinary messages we see when …

Not only limited to the business world, we also reach out to people using the expression “I am contacting you…” all the time. But as you may know, there is a multitude of ways on communicating the intent of our message to someone.  So, today, we’ll look into the variations and alternatives to the phrase …

Human as we are, we show our affection by sending “I miss you” messages to people that we fancy or like on different levels. Reality check, we may or may not feel the same toward the other party. At times, we even want to goof around and just be silly in the way we respond. …

Although widely used and clear enough in terms of meaning, “Thank you for checking on me” may sometimes come off as an inappropriate message. Why so? Well, that’s likely because we share different levels of relationships with those people who may check up on us. To avoid sending out-of-place gratitude messages, we have listed twenty …

A truckload of business expressions is present in the English language. Some are fairly easy to make use of and understand, while others – not so. Sometimes, this painful fact may put us at the end of our wits because we are likely to get confused about which one is the best for a particular …

Gratitude is driven either by real kindness or by the need to show others that we care about them; whatever the real motivation is, we carry out gratitude-related actions every day. We show gratitude when someone gives us food to eat. We show gratitude when someone offers us a seat, and we show gratitude even …