Is there anything wrong with saying "I was feeling amazing at the party with all my friends around"? Is it grammatically incorrect? Should this be said some other way?
Word Usage – Feeling Amazing or Amazed?
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It's as Stephie said in her answer.
audience
3. a formal meeting with a very important person
audience with: He had an audience with the Pope in 1996.
Normally, I would post this definition of audience with as a comment (as a hint that you could find the answer on your own if Stephie hadn't posted her answer; or in our case, as additional information after Stephie posted her answer). But in this answer, I want to point out that with a right dictionary, you can solve a lot of similar questions on your own.
It's reasonable that you expected audience of because the more common sense of audience is "a group of people who watch, listen to, participate in, or read something". That makes it easy for us to expect audience of someone or something along the lines of his or its audience.
But! here is my tip, when you find a familiar word used in an unexpected manner: Don't guess.
It's better to look it up in dictionaries, because chances are it could be an uncommon sense of the word; it could also be an idiomatic use of the word (and English has lots of idiomatic phrases which quite often the meanings are not compositional--that is, we can't understand the meaning of the whole phrase by reading it word by word).
Guessing could give you the wrong idea about the phrase. Why? Because being a non-native speaker, our intuition may not be as reliable as we think or hope it to be, which is simply because we already have another set of intuitions in another language, our first language(s).
Here is another tip: try to include a word before or a word after the word in question if you can't find a definition that makes sense the first time.
"And which dictionary should I use?" you may ask. My answer would be: any dictionary that works for you. But personally, I'd recommend Macmillan Dictionary. I have no affiliation with the dictionary. It's just that after a few years, it's clear to me that Macmillan always keeps learners in mind, even though they don't include the word "Learner's" in the title of the dictionary.
Macmillan Dictionary has several advantages over other dictionaries. It's online. Its definitions of words are in plain and clear English, which make it easy to read and understand the definitions. It comes with pronunciation, both in BrE and AmE, both in phonetic transcription and audio. It includes almost all common idiomatic uses of words and phrases. But that's not all! There are more subtle features such as "red stars" indicating word frequency, links to synonyms and related words, and so on.
Finally, if all those tricks with dictionaries fail, come here and post your question on ELL.
Happy learning!
I doubt thanks before is commonly used in this sense. Thanks in advance is frequently used. Here is some data on the matter. If we let Google expand our search for context, notice that thanks in advance has the context we want.
If it is written, then I personally don't think it is rude, since I understand that the author is trying to be polite. If it is spoken, and the speaker says it in a presumptuous manner, then it is really irritating.
However, there are people who will find it rude. They will more likely take it as a presumptuous statement.
I personally say, or write in an email, "Thank you for your consideration". Some other alternatives include:
- Thank you for your time.
- I (would) appreciate your/any feedback.
- I appreciate your consideration.
I found a post online that addresses this matter. The author gives some other alternatives:
- Thank you for considering my request.
- I will be grateful for any help you can provide.
- I will appreciate your help with this situation.
- I hope you will be able to provide the information.
Best Answer
It's important to note that many people use "amazing" as slang to mean "very good," "awesome," "excellent" etc. But other forms of the verb "amaze" are taken literally.
So your two sentences are both grammatical, but have different meanings because of the colloquial meaning of "amazing"
means that you were feeling exceptionally good while at the party. The party likely put you in high spirits.
means that you literally were amazed while at the party. Perhaps the party was a lot better than you expected, and you were impressed by the quality. Or maybe you were amazed by a illusionist/magic show.