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The corrected expressions (and spelling) are:
1.Thank God it’s Friday!
2.Thank goodness it’s Friday!
The two sentences mean the same thing and are often referred to simply as TGIF.
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| #3 (permalink) Tue Sep 12, 2006 19:56 pm God vs godness |
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| Amy wrote: |
1.Thank God it’s Friday!
2.Thank goodness it’s Friday! |
Thanks, Amy!
How would they look if I put a comma after God or goodness?
1- Thank God, it is Sunday!
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| #4 (permalink) Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:53 am God vs godness |
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Dear teacher,
You wrote:
1.Thank God it’s Friday!
2.Thank goodness it’s Friday!
The two sentences mean the same thing and are often referred to simply as TGIF.
That means God and goodness refer to the same thing?If not, please explain me why God and goodness refer to the different things but the meaning of (1) and (2)is the same?
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:54 am God vs godness |
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Hello, anybody there? :roll: :roll:
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:15 pm God vs godness |
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Hi Tom
I'd say the only good possible alternative would be to do what Quoc initially did (i.e., an exclamatory sentence Thank God! followed by It's Friday.)
I'd say the sentence is almost always written this way:
Thank God it's Friday. Why start adding commas where none is needed?
Hi Quoc
It really serves no useful purpose to take standard expressions apart and analyze the individual words. You should learn idioms and standard expressions as a whole.
God and goodness have similar meanings in that God is often defined as a representation of all that is good.
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| #7 (permalink) Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:27 pm God vs godness |
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| Quote: |
| Thank God it's Friday. Why start adding commas where none is needed? |
Hmm. In my first language we’d also put comma there…
always.
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| #8 (permalink) Fri Sep 15, 2006 16:21 pm God vs godness |
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Dear teacher,
You wrote:
God and goodness have similar meanings in that God is often defined as a representation of all that is good.
What does in that mean? What does that refer to?
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| #9 (permalink) Fri Sep 15, 2006 16:56 pm God vs godness |
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Quoc, the following link will be very helpful for you:
http://www.onelook.com/
in that means "for the reason that"
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