To write belated happy birthday messages for a friend or family member, write 1-3 sentences to say that you hope they had a great birthday. Include the word “belated” or “late” to acknowledge that they’re receiving your message after the birthday has passed.
Say what you appreciate about the person or how wonderful you hope their birthday was.
QuillBot’s free Grammar Checker can help you proofread belated happy birthday wishes before you send them.
A happy Thanksgiving message to employees can include an acknowledgment of the hard work they’ve done throughout the year and an encouragement to enjoy the holiday.
QuillBot’s free Paraphrasing Tool can help you find the right words for all of your Thanksgiving greetings.
A happy Thanksgiving message to coworkers can express gratitude to them for the way they’ve improved your work life. Depending on the level of relationship you have, it can be more formal or more casual.
QuillBot’s free Paraphrasing Tool can help you craft appropriate Thanksgiving greetings for any audience.
A happy Thanksgiving message to your boss can express your appreciation for the ways they have supported you. If you work very closely with your boss, you can include personal details. If you don’t, a more generic holiday message is appropriate.
Try QuillBot’s free Paraphrasing Tool to choose the right words for your Thanksgiving messages.
“Happy Thanksgiving” is capitalized when it is used as an exclamation (e.g., “Happy Thanksgiving, Mom!”). However, when you use the phrase in the middle of a sentence, “happy” is not capitalized but “Thanksgiving” is because it is a proper noun (e.g., “She wished me a happy Thanksgiving”).
Often, Thanksgiving messages will begin with the capitalized exclamation “Happy Thanksgiving!”
QuillBot’s free Grammar Checker can help ensure you’re using capitalization correctly.
Good happy Thanksgiving text messages depend on the audience (e.g., friends, family, coworkers). In general Thanksgiving messages should reference the holiday and describe something you’re grateful for about your relationship with that person. Some phrases you can include in Thanksgiving text messages include:
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Turkey Day!
I am so grateful for …
Thank you for …
On this Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for …
Of the many things I have to be grateful for, you’re at the top of the list.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday!
I hope your day is full of food and family!
QuillBot’s free Paraphrasing Tool can help you word your message in exactly the right way.
Good luck is always two words. It’s an idiom that you can use by itself with an exclamation point (e.g., “Good luck!) or with a prepositional phrase (e.g., “Good luck at the game!”). You can also use “good luck” as a noun phrase in complete sentences (e.g., “I’m sending you lots of good luck for your interview”).
“Good luck” is never one word, but sometimes it’s hyphenated. Use a hyphen when “good-luck” is a compound adjective that modifies a noun (e.g., “That red bandana is my good-luck charm”).
A QuillBot Grammar Check can help you avoid errors with “good luck” and other English expressions.
To wish someone “good luck” professionally, say “Best of luck with your future endeavors” or “wishing you all the best.” These synonyms for good luck mean that you hope the person has great success with a future job or professional situation.
This saying works well in farewell messages to professional or academic contacts who are starting new opportunities.
When you’re writing messages to colleagues, QuillBot’s free Paraphraser can help you find synonyms for phrases like “good luck.”
Thank you so much is a polite way to express deep gratitude or appreciation. It is a more emphatic version of the phrase “thank you” and can be used in both formal and informal contexts.
“Thanks” is often use in place of “thank you” in more informal contexts (e.g., “Thanks so much for the gift”).
Avoid statements like it’s nice to e-meet you when meeting someone over email or other forms of electronic communication (e.g., Slack, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams).
The phrases nice to meet you and nice to see you have different meanings and audiences.
“Nice to meet you” is short for “It is nice to meet you.” The audience is a person whom you are currently meeting for the first time.
“Nice to see you” is a polite expression for a person you already know. When it’s used as a greeting, it means “It is nice to see you” (simple present tense). When it’s part of a farewell, it means “It was nice to see you” (past tense).
QuillBot’s free Paraphrasing Tool can help you find other ways to say “Nice to meet you” or “Nice to see you.”
Happy birthday is sometimes capitalized and sometimes not depending on the context. The capitalization rules for “happy birthday” and “birthday” are as follows:
Capitalize “Happy Birthday!” when it’s part of a greeting (e.g., “Happy Birthday, Lynn!”).
“Birthday” is not a proper noun like holidays such as Halloween or Thanksgiving, so the only other time it’s capitalized is when it begins a sentence or is part of a title (e.g., “Birthdays are special”).
Don’t capitalize “happy birthday” when “birthday” is a noun that functions as the subject of a sentence (e.g., “A happy birthday doesn’t always need to include cake and parties”).
Don’t capitalize “happy birthday” when it’s a direct object that receives the action in a sentence (e.g., “I hope you had a happy birthday yesterday”).
Don’t capitalize “happy” or “birthday” when either or both of these words are adjectives that modify another noun (e.g., “I spent the entire afternoon reading my happy birthday messages on Facebook” or “We ate the entire birthday cake”).
Happy belated birthday means “happy late birthday.” You can also say “belated happy birthday.” Both are appropriate happy birthday wisheswhen you missed the birthday but still want to acknowledge it and spread birthday cheer.
If you’re looking for more ways to say “happy belated birthday,” QuillBot’s free Paraphraser can help you reword happy late birthday messages.
Welcome with one “l” is the correct spelling in phrases like you’re welcome, where it functions as an adjective. This word can also be a noun that means “a greeting during someone’s arrival” or a verb that means “to greet someone in a polite way.”
QuillBot’s free Grammar Checker can help you spell words like “welcome” correctly in your writing.
My pleasure means “It was my pleasure to help you” or “The pleasure was all mine.” It’s a formal way of saying you’re welcome after someone says thank you.
“My pleasure” shows another person that you enjoyed helping them. The phrase is common in business settings when communicating with clients, colleagues, and supervisors, but it also works in everyday social settings.
If you need help with different ways to say “my pleasure” or “you’re welcome,” QuillBot’s free Paraphraser can help you rewrite sentences.
You should capitalize the first letter of Halloween when you use this word in sentences or Halloween sayings. Because holidays like Halloween are proper nouns, they should always be capitalized.
QuillBot’s free Grammar Checker can help you avoid capitalization errors with “Halloween” and other holidays.
Trick or treat means “give me a treat, or I will play a trick on you.” It’s a traditional Halloween saying that children use when they knock on doors in costumes to ask for candy on Halloween night.
You can also use “trick or treat” as a verb (e.g., “We’re trick or treating with our cousins this year”).
“Trick or treater” is the noun for the children who trick or treat on Halloween.
The Halloween saying “trick or treat” originates from Irish and Scottish All Hallows’ Eve traditions from the Middle Ages, when young people dressed up in costumes and performed a trick (e.g., a joke or a song) for each household in exchange for a treat.
The Halloween saying “trick or treat” came about in the early 1900s in the United States after pranks and mischief had become common Halloween activities. By this time, children no longer exchanged antics for treats but rather offered each household the choice of giving treats or getting pranked.
QuillBot’s free Paraphrasing Tool can help you use Halloween sayings like “trick or treat” correctly.
Halloween means “the night before All Saints’ Day.” Halloween is a holiday on October 31 that involves dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating (knocking on doors to ask for candy).
Halloween costumes and Halloween sayings have traditionally been associated with death (e.g., ghosts and skeletons) because the holiday is celebrated the night before All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day–Christian holy days that honor saints and those who have passed. All Saints’ Day used to be called “All Hallows’ Day.”
The word “Halloween” is a contraction for the old English words “hallows” (saints) and “even” (evening). In some parts of the world, “Hallowe’en” has an apostrophe.
QuillBot’s free Paraphrasing Tool can help you polish your Halloween messages.
Wedding thank you messages should show that you’re grateful for the gift and/or the love and support on your special day. You might also mention one of your favorite moments with the person during your wedding.
If you need help with word choices for wedding thank you messages, QuillBot’s free Paraphrasing Tool can help.
To write emotional thank you messages in response to birthday wishes, you can write a short post or message to thank everyone. Briefly state how happy the birthday messages made you feel when you read them. You might also say how you celebrated your special day.
If you need help with word choices for a “thank you for the birthday wishes” post, QuillBot’s free Paraphrasing Tool can help.
“Thank you so much” and “thank you very much” are both correct ways to emphasize that you’re thankful.
Both phrases have the same meaning (e.g., “Thank you so much for the flowers” is the same as “Thank you very much for the flowers”). They are both appropriate to use in thank you messages of all types.
If you’re ever unsure about whether a phrase like “thank you so much” is grammatically correct, QuillBot’s free Grammar Checker can help you avoid mistakes.