The compliment is several pleasant words to the interlocutor which are capable to dispose it to you even if you are hardly familiar. Compliments are pleasant to all people, but nobody loves flattery therefore for a praise choose such quality of the person which really is pleasant to you. Not to deliberate long over compliments, it is useful to learn what they happen.
Instruction
1. Direct compliment. Such compliment is under construction usually: you address the person and give him characteristic, allocating some special detail. As the address it is possible to use a name or a position of the person, but it is possible to add such words as "expensive", "favourite", "dear", depending on a situation. These words in itself are already peculiar compliments. It is important that from the address a stamp impression was not made. Quite often the address in a compliment is absent. Then the statement is begun with the words "you" or "you".
2. It is possible to praise in a compliment anything. For example, if the compliment is given the woman, then to appropriate tell something concerning her appearance: it can be beauty, style, color of eyes or a hairstyle. It is possible to use a comparative or excellent form, having told that the person every day only improves in something or that it the best in a certain business.
3. Comparison – a good method of a compliment. Sometimes the person is compared to someone, and here it is better to use the literary or cinema characters appearing in imagination in an idealized look. Real people, even celebrities, as a rule, have shortcomings in the opinion of people. Comparing to literary characters, it is convenient to praise internal merits of the person, for example, mind, insight or kindness. So, it is possible to tell the interlocutor that he is clever as Sherlock Holmes.
4. Indirect compliment. Such compliment praises not directly the addressee, and something, related. For example, if it is about young mother, it is possible to note how her children are beautiful. Men are usually glad when they admire their car. Depending on a situation and the relations with the person, it is possible to allocate other objects which praise will be appropriate in this situation.
5. A compliment – an antithesis. This type of compliments demands from the author of extremely high precision in a statement, but at the same time it is the most effective and memorable. At first it is necessary to report about the person something negative, and then positive which considerably will move the first negative part. It is better that "minus" was not real quality of the person, and your reaction which you explain in the second part of a statement. For example, it is possible to tell the beautiful woman: "I would not call you beautiful, but I would tell that you are simply magnificent!".
6. A compliment – the answer. If you were told a compliment, then you can get off with the banal answer "You too", and can approach a question more creatively. Nevertheless such type of compliments is usually perceived as a tribute to etiquette, seldom who thinks that it was praised heartily.