Similarly, when we receive a card saying belated happy birthday, we should think of belated as qualifying the whole of happy birthday, rather than just birthday.
If you say "happy birthday" a day late, it's a "belated happy birthday". What about when you say it one day early? Is there a single word fitting this definition?
Many people greet me " Many more happy returns of the day" on my birthday. I thought it is grammatically wrong. Can we use "many" and "more" at a time in a sentence. I thought that it is correct to greet "Many happy returns of the day". Are the given below sentences grammatically correct? 1) Many more happy returns of the day. 2) Many many happy returns of the day.
I've always simply written it "Happy birthday!" but my wife recently said that "Birthday" should be capitalized as well. What's grammatically correct?
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grammar - Is it grammatically correct to say "Many more happy returns ...
Belated as they may be The above is not a complete sentence. Normally, such phrases are the middle of a complete sentence or the end of a complete sentence. For example: Please accept my commiserations, belated as they may be. The adjective " belated " is used to describe the nature of the subject such as the noun " commiseration " in the example above. The phrase " as they may be " is used to ...