Wishing Someone a Happy Birthday (English Phrases)

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Hello. This is Jack from ttofluency.com, and in this video I'm going to look
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at some phrases that you can use when you want to wish somebody a happy birthday, so
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let's go straight into it. So, the first one here, as you can see, is a simple one:
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Happy Birthday, Sarah! Now, a couple of things here: the first one is that we
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use capitals 'Happy Birthday H and B. Now this rule isn't very strong - you'll see a
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lot of people using a capital H but not the capital B, ok, but the the right
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way to do it is: both with capital. And then, we have a comma, and then we have
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the name - it's very common to use an exclamation mark here too, so Happy
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Birthday, Sarah! The next one is pretty cool which is this:
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'Hope you have a great day' or 'hope you have a wonderful day' - 'hope you have a
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fantastic day'. Something that's really interesting is we don't tend to use 'I'
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when we're using this phrase with birthdays, so it's not that common to use the 'I' here
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You can use it if you want but it's more common just to use it without. The last
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one is a little bit more formal and it's... 'Wishing you all the best for today and
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in the future.'
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'Wishing you all the best for today and in the future.'
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Now, this one is is quite strong, you know, it's quite a strong thing to say, this
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one is more informal - this one is a little bit stronger now there are many
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more phrases that you can use what I want you to do is to leave some of them
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below this vide. So,if you know other phrases that you can use to wish
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somebody happy birthday then leave them below. So thank you for watching this
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video and I'll see you next time
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