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Hi Tamara,
To answer your points:
| Quote: | 1. Could you explain, why thanks you (without TO) isn’t correct?
2. Could you give some comments, what contexts could be appropriate for using such 'patterns' as:
- thank you ever so much
- Very Many Thanks
- thanks awfully
3. What is the second meaning of thankee (except just 'thank you'? Is it similar to 'if you’re so kind that would allow me (to do something)... that thank you in advance for that'?
Can I say 'a thankee'? |
Thanks you (1)suggests to me that the verb is being used but there is no subject (he/she/it) and so it makes no sense. If thanks is a noun, there is no grammatical connection with the two words (noun and pronoun) and so again makes no sense unless you link them with a preposition such as for example to/from/
The three examples in (2) would be used in informal conversational English. If I were feeling very snobbish, I could denote them as examples from different types of people but I'm not. In all honesty they are all of equal value.
In number (3) thankee to me sounds quite rustic and quaint as a corruption of thank you and if you used it, it would sound amusing. In films/novels set in the 1920s/1930s the local country people would use it to say thank you to the gentry with men touching their forelock and women curtseying. So it's best left in the past and you wouldn't say a thankee.
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| Tue Aug 01, 2006 16:28 pm Thanks |
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Hi Tamara,
Your confirmation of (1) is fine. Your point (4) many thanks - this is just expressing thanks in a very grateful way.
Your comment:
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has me mystified. I didn't know that you had to pass a 'style' test to post something on the forum! What you ask is fine and always very interesting.
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| Wed Aug 02, 2006 0:43 am 'Thank you' but 'thanks TO you'? |
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Hi toefl
I'm well aware that that's a commonly made mistake. But seeing as other non-native speakers might just read this thread in an effort to get correct information, it seemed worth mentioning that the unnecessary "s" is, in fact, unnecessary and should be "fired".
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| Yankee wrote: | Hi toefl
I'm well aware that that's a commonly made mistake. But seeing as other non-native speakers might just read this thread in an effort to get correct information, it seemed worth mentioning that the unnecessary "s" is, in fact, unnecessary and should be "fired". |
Agree, unnecessary "S", you are dismissed, fired, laid off, pink-slipped, discharged...
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