{"id":73309,"date":"2020-03-23T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73309"},"modified":"2020-03-23T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:04:04","slug":"thanks-and-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/thanks-and-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks And Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thank you\u00a0<\/b>is more formal than\u00a0<b>thanks.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thank you. (NOT Thanks you.)<\/li>\n<li>Thanks a lot. (NOT Thank you a lot.)<\/li>\n<li>Thank you very much.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks very much.<\/li>\n<li>Thank God it\u2019s Friday. (NOT Thanks God \u2026)<\/li>\n<li>Thank you very much indeed. (BUT NOT Thank you indeed.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you for\/ thanks for can be followed by an \u2013ing form.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thank you for coming.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks for everything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We often use Thank you\/Thanks to accept offers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Would you like some coffee?\u2019 \u2018Thank you.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To refuse an offer, you can say No thank you\/ No thanks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Another cake?\u2019 \u2018No, thanks. I have eaten too many already.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Replies to thanks<\/h3>\n<p>British people, do not usually answer when they are thanked for small things. If a reply is a necessary, we can say\u00a0<b>Not at all\u00a0<\/b>(formal),\u00a0<b>You are welcome, Don\u2019t mention it, That\u2019s quite all right\u00a0<\/b>or\u00a0<b>That\u2019s OK\u00a0<\/b>(informal).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Here is your coat.\u2019 \u2018Thanks.\u2019 (no answer)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Thanks so much for looking after the children.\u2019 \u2018That\u2019s all right.\u2019 (answer necessary)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you\u00a0is more formal than\u00a0thanks. Thank you. (NOT Thanks you.) Thanks a lot. (NOT Thank you a lot.) Thank you very much. Thanks very much. Thank God it\u2019s Friday. (NOT Thanks God \u2026) Thank&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2149,2148],"class_list":["post-73309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-thank-you","tag-thanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73310,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73309\/revisions\/73310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}