Praise

[Alan]

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Hello,

It's always good to be told that you have done something well. It gives you a kind of inner glow, doesn't it? A bit of praise does you a power of good. And to be fair when you give it to someone else, that feels good, too. Here's how we deliver it in English.

http://www.english-test.net/stories/68/index.html

Alan
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English as a Second Language
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[Angi]

Hello dear Alan!

You are doing your job really with pleasure I'm sure,because it's obvious in all your essays.

You are brilliant,amazing!

Thanks alot!

Ilearn every time something new from essas.

Regards,Angelina

[Swangchuk]

What remarkable phrases. I really loved.

thanks

[Ana Maria Flores]

Hello everybody. I have a question and it's not related to this praise topic. How,when and under what circumstances can we use the term "REGARD". It confuses me a lot!
Thank's.

[Jordania]

Hello,
I just know that in e-mails people use BEST REGARDS as to wish you the best of something. Maybe more people can tell your more about this word. It is the only that I know :P

Best regards,
Jordania ;)

[Beeesneees]

You ought to use a good Learner's Dictionary.

This type of dicttionary is very useful because as well as giving definitions, it also provides notes on usage.
If you look up regard in the above dictionary, you find this information and more:

USAGE:
call
find
consider
see
view

These words all mean to think about somebody/something in a particular way.

regard to think of somebody/something in a particular way: He seemed to regard the whole thing as a joke.

call to say that somebody/something has particular qualities or characteristics: I wouldn't call German an easy language.

find to have a particular feeling or opinion about something: You may find your illness hard to accept.

consider to think of somebody/something in a particular way: Who do you consider (to be) responsible for the accident?

regard or consider?
These two words have the same meaning, but they are used in different patterns and structures. In this meaning consider must be used with a complement or clause: you can consider somebody/something to be something or consider somebody/something as something, although very often the to be or as is left out:
He considers himself an expert.
◇ They are considered a high-risk group.
You can also consider that somebody/something is something and again, the that can be left out.

Regard is used in a narrower range of structures. The most frequent structure is regard somebody/something as something; the as cannot be left out:
I regard him a close friend.
You cannot regard somebody/something to be something or regard that somebody/something is something.
However, regard (but not consider in this meaning) can also be used without a noun or adjective complement but with just an object and adverb (somebody/something is highly regarded) or adverbial phrase (regard somebody/something with suspicion/jealousy/admiration).

see to have an opinion of something: Try to see things from her point of view.

view to think of somebody/something in a particular way: How do you view your position within the company?

View has the same meaning as regard and consider but is slightly less frequent and slightly less formal.
The main structures are view somebody/something as somebody/something (you cannot leave out the as) and view somebody/something with something.
to regard/consider/see/view somebody/something as something
to regard/consider/see/view somebody/something from a particular point of view
to find/consider somebody/something to be something
generally/usually regarded/considered/seen/viewed as something
to regard/consider/view somebody/something favourably/unfavourably
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Cheers m' dears!

[Jordania]

Very good answer! ;)

Thank you Beeesneees

[Cesar Lopez Petrovich]

Dear Alan,
It was a great essay, my friend!

Congratulations!

Regards,

Cesar Lopez Petrovich.

[HamidTeh]

Many thanks Alan for this great topic.It was a fantastic review.

[Dieter Radke]

Dear Alan,

thank you for your English learning help. There is no better way to learn English and proof skills.

god bless you

best regards

Terry

[Benharoun]

Hello everybody

My English still poor please I need your help, my spelling , and speaking an son ...

Thank you for your English learning help. There is no better way to learn English and proof skills.

[Lourimar]

Dear Alan,
Although I don't send my opinions to the many essays that you post, I really admire you and your patience in helping us learn about this language. I'd like to let you know that I'm a silent reader of all these stuff and I learn so much from you. Many thanks.

Moonrock

[Hamroz]

First of all, i have to comment that your lessons are always useful and interesting for me and for the rest of online students as well! i am happy that i am a student of these kind of teachers;-)
thank you a ,lot! and my best for you and other staff if this net school!

i found here a lot of important and interesting topics, issues and of course so necessary stuff which i could get only by paying someone to teach me! but here with the help of you i improved my english language skills, even though i was not active student here, i really appreciate what you did me and still doing, i just cant find appropriate word to express my ideas. When i registered to this online class, i was taking extra classes in my home country so that i could improved my english. but i foungd ouot this class more usefull so i stopped to take extra lessons. i recommended my close friends to register to this class, i want they to sign up and join us improving their english with us!

Good luck! Take care!

Kind Regards

Hamroz Abduhoshimov- Samarkand- Kushrabat

[Shanthisethuraman]

Hi Alan Sir
Thank you for your Essay Praise. It was good. I don't know how to praise

you for writing essays and stroies, Shall I say sir, you are deserved to pat

on the back for all your hard work you are rendering for our learners.

Thank you

S.Shanthi

[Josazapr]

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Excellent I really love this kind of information because it helps you to learn many different things and manage the language in another way. Thanks a lot dear Alan.