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Grammar and Linguistics > help please
help please
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janaesl
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help please
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which of the sentence is correct.
I am sorry for losing your book
or
I am sorry about losing your book.
thanks in advance |
13 Oct 2012
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elwirafinka
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Hi!
�for � is the correct option :)
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13 Oct 2012
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sugarpasa
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I am sorry about your book
I am sorry for losing your book
:D
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13 Oct 2012
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cunliffe
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Both the sentences you give are fine in that context. There is a difference between �sorry for� and �sorry about� and I�ll explain later (unless somebody else gets on and does it first. ) I�m feeling lazy, sorry about that.
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13 Oct 2012
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libertybelle
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I don �t see any difference.
The blame for losing the book is the first person "I" in both cases.
Libertybelle
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13 Oct 2012
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joy2bill
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Just to confuse you, I would probably say, "I �m sorry I lost your book." Much easier, quite natural and leaves out the tricky prepositions! |
14 Oct 2012
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Apodo
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Both your sentences are correct, as is joytobill �s. I am sorry for losing your book. I am sorry about losing your book. I �m sorry I lost your book. I would always use sorry for if expressing sympathy for a person in this context: I�m sorry for her, she looked so tired when I saw her. I found this:
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2314106
They are both fine, and pretty much interchangeable, I
would say.
If the thing you�re sorry about is not actually your own fault, you can say
sorry about or sorry for.
If you feel you personally are at fault in some way, you�d probably say
"sorry for".
I�m sorry about the delay (there�s not much I can do about it, the
circumstances are beyond my control)
I�m sorry for the delay (if I/we had managed our time better, or organized
ourselves better, the delay might not have happened)
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14 Oct 2012
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