Timeline for Can I say "I'm glad I was of any help"? [duplicate]
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Duplicate of Does it sound weird to say " I hope I can be of any use (help) to you" in a cover letter? | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 16:29 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 25, 2014 at 19:10 | vote | accept | Ian Liu Rodrigues | ||
| Nov 25, 2014 at 14:18 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 13:04 | comment | added | Kris | I would like to compliment you on your English, being a non-native speaker. | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 13:03 | comment | added | Wayfaring Stranger | I'm glad I was of some help! | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 13:02 | comment | added | Kris | Fine, it conveys quite the same sentiment: "my first presentation ..., and yet I was able to help." | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 12:56 | comment | added | Ian Liu Rodrigues | @Kris My intention is to express gratitude and surprise, for this was my first presentation in this particular scientific congress, and yet I was able to help people. Also, I'm from Brazil if that matters ;-) | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 12:50 | history | edited | Kris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 25, 2014 at 12:49 | comment | added | Kris | Yes, you can. However, your intention in using any is not clear. It gives the sentence a particular meaning. If that's what you are trying to say, then it's fine. Can you add more detail? | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 12:29 | comment | added | Joe Dark | Glad to be of help. (I'm is assumed and can be safely omitted.) Alternatively: Glad I was of help. | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 12:25 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Or, alternatively, “I’m glad I could be of help”. The thing that feels most wrong in your sentence is any, which is usually restricted to questions, negatives, and cases where the emphasis is on “any[thing] at all, even minor [things]”. This isn’t really such a case, so it feels odd. | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 12:24 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 25, 2014 at 12:22 | comment | added | Dan Bron | We'd probably render this more idiomatically as "I'm glad I could help!" or "I'm glad I was able to help!". Thought, that said, there's nothing technically wrong with the way you originally phrased it. | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 12:20 | history | asked | Ian Liu Rodrigues | CC BY-SA 3.0 |