I'd like to congratulate the staff for their good job According to google ngram viewer congratulate on is a lot more frequent than congratulate for, but the latter is used nevertheless To answer your question, both sound natural to me. This speech may not have been delivered in english,. Birthday congratulations @levi i would say that we can congratulate sb On their birthday, but we don't actually say congratulations.
Congratulations is simply the plural form of congratulation Let me offer you my congratulations for being elected Please send her my congratulations I sent her a letter of congratulations The plural form illustrated by the examples above is much more used than the singular form 2523 matches for congratulations vs
The difference is very subtle Congratulation is congratulating, that is having some joy, some pleasure, perhaps by yourself and even secretly, for instance because you have won at the lottery Congratulations are the expression of that, for instance to a newly married couple The word comes from latin congratulatio, with exactly the same meaning. At school i was taught that before the plural form we don't use the articles a and an So why do people use a before big congratulations
A big congratulations to dr Wei cheng on his la. As in i pride myself on my ability to speak klingon and romulan in the appropriate accents. which is the correct preposition for the end of that expression? Imagine someone important congratulated you at work (getting a big client, swiftly solving a burning issue) by email How can one reply to that in the most formal way possible I looked at a bunch of style guides to see what they have to say on this subject
