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Hi, I'm Sam from BBC Learning English. People
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in the UK have a reputation for saying 'sorry'
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a lot, so let's have a look at different ways
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you can use to do this.
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So: - You can say 'sorry'
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- you can 'be sorry'
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- and you can 'apologise'.
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In each case, you use the preposition 'to' with
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a person and 'for' to give the reason you're apologising:
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'I said sorry to my friend for forgetting her birthday.'
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After 'for' you can use a gerund or a noun.
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But if you want a simple statement to say
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'I was wrong', you can use any of these.
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Careful who you say these to – 'my bad!'
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is very informal and you would probably only
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use it after making a small mistake.
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'It won’t happen again' is probably better in more
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serious situations.
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