Compliments and Congratulations

Compliments and
Congratulations

Words that use to congratulate someone on their achievement or success.

​Congratulations

Say something nice, good about a person and express admiration.

​Compliments

Definition:

​Purpose:

• to help people maintain their good relationships with each other.

• to represent the happiness of seeing someone's achievement.

• Both of congratulation and compliment are used to express something good that happened to someone.

Multiple Choice

Prestasi = ...

• reward

• award

• presentation

• performance

• achievement

Multiple Choice

Which one is the example of "Compliments"?

• Your performance was so awesome

• Oh, I'm sorry to hear that

• My deepest condolences

• Happy wedding anniversary

• It was terrible

Multiple Choice

Which expressions belongs to congratulating others?

• What a nice dress!

• You look so beautiful.

• I'm so proud of you.

• You're still remembered

• Wow, how clever you are.

Language Features

​Congratulations

​Compliments

• Congratulations + on + your ...

• Congratulations + for + V ing

• positive, nice words about someone (appearance, performance, achievement, characters, possession)

Examples

​Congratulations

​Compliments

• What a great performance

• It was so delicious.

• It was awesome

• This hotel is very recommended

• Congratulations on your special day!

• Congratulations for winning the gold medal! You deserve it

Multiple Choice

"I am happy for you. Finally you got your dream car."

This expression belongs to...

• Compliment

• Congratulations

Multiple Choice

Rahel : Hey, Daniel! How was the economics competition? Did you and your team go home with the trophy?

Daniel : Thank God, we did. Fortunately we succeeded to get the first place.

Rahel : ...

Daniel : Thank you very much for saying so. So, how about you and your team in astronomy competition?

Rahel : Unfortunately, I and my team didn’t get the first place. We got the third place but I was really happy since we had won over many other teams and gone that far.

Daniel : That’s the spirit, Rahel! I am sure you and your friend did it very well. I congratulate you on your great success.

Rahel : Thank you very much, Daniel. We still have to learn more to be the first like your teams did.

Daniel : Cool! Let’s fight for the next competition!

Question:

What is the next conversation after Daniel said his team on succeeded?

• It’s so bad news from you

• Wow that’s a good job, Dan. Congratulation on your team success!

• How you can won in this competition?

• Good job. You failed on many things.

• Actually, your team can do more than that.

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