How to acknowledge help from other people?

[Diamondsmith]

How to express thanks to your friends who have help you in your writing? I saw some expressions like "I would like to thank Dr John Smith for his valuable help in organizing the structure of the research...But all error would be my responsibility..blabla", but I forgot the exact words and phrases. How to express this properly? There must be many ways to express such meanings.

[emsr2d2]

How to do you express thanks to your friends who have helped you in your writing? I saw some expressions like "I would like to thank Dr John Smith for his valuable help in organizing the structure of the research...But all error would be my responsibility..blabla", but I have forgotten the exact words and phrases. How to can I express this properly? There must be many ways to express such meanings.

Your quote is similar to ones that are seen very often.

"I would like to thank [name] for his/her invaluable help with my [book/thesis/novel/research]. Any errors or omissions are entirely the responsibility of the author."

As long as the name of the person, what they helped you with and "thanks" appear somewhere, you can't really go wrong. There's no formal, standard phrase.

Please note that unless you are using it as the title of a book/paragraph/set of instructions, we don't start a question with "How to..."

How to write this in English? = No
How do I write this in English? = Yes
How can I write this in English? = Yes
How should one write this in English? = Yes

How to express thanks to someone? = No
How do you express thanks to someone? = Yes
How should I express thanks to someone? = Yes
How can I express thanks to someone? = Yes

[Diamondsmith]

Your quote is similar to ones that are seen very often.

"I would like to thank [name] for his invaluable help with my [book/thesis/novel/research]. Any errors or omissions are entirely the responsibility of the author."

As long as the name of the person, what they helped you with and "thanks" appear somewhere, you can't really go wrong. There's no formal, standard phrase.

Please note that unless you are using it as the title of a book/paragraph/set of instructions, we don't start a question with "How to..."

How to write this in English? = No
How do I write this in English? = Yes
How can I write this in English? = Yes
How should one write this in English? = Yes

How to express thanks to someone? = No
How do you express thanks to someone? = Yes
How should I express thanks to someone? = Yes
How can I express thanks to someone? = Yes

Many thanks for the corrections!

[TheParser]

How to express thanks to your friends who have help you in your writing? I saw some expressions like "I would like to thank Dr John Smith for his valuable help in organizing the structure of the research...But all error would be my responsibility..blabla", but I forgot the exact words and phrases. How to express this properly? There must be many ways to express such meanings.

***** NOT A TEACHER *****


(1) The teacher has already given us an excellent answer.

(2) I only wish to give you an example of an elegant "thank you" that you

may wish to consider.

(3) Many years ago, two English brothers wrote a book on "good" English called

The King's English. Today some people say that the book is too old (1906) to be

useful; others disagree.

(4) In their preface, they write these words:

The especial thanks of the compilers are offered to Dr Bradley, joint editor

of the Oxford English Dictionary, who has been good enough to inspect the

proof-sheets, and whose many valuable suggestions have led to the removal

of some too unqualified statements, some confused exposition, and some

positive mistakes.

(5) Of course, I do not know what you wish to thank people for, but the Fowler

brothers' words show us that you might consider being specific. That is, let your

correspondents know exactly how they helped you.

(6) By the way, the Fowler brothers' use of "especial" is old-fashioned, but it

is still elegant and accurate. (That is, Dr. Bradley deserves thanks that are more

than the usual thanks.) Since the Fowler brothers were English gentlemen, they did

not use the period after Dr.

(7) Also notice their wording of "The especial thanks of the compilers [the authors]

are offered to Dr Bradley." I think that writing teachers nowadays recommend that

we use more direct language: We wish to extend especial thanks to Dr. Bradley,

who ....

(a) Nevertheless, some people still like the more formal, indirect approach used by the

Fowler brothers. You might consider this approach, for I have heard that the

Japanese language appreciates this indirect and more modest way of expression.