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Monday, March 21, 2011

Expreesions of Annoyance and Anger in English

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These are some common expressions for showing annoyance and anger. Expressing annoyance is used to express that someone is annoyed or anger
  • Oh, dear!
  • Oh, no!
  • Bother!
  • Damn!
  • I can't believe it!
  • Why does this always happen!
  • For goodness sake!
  • For heaven's sake!
  • For pete's sake!
  • For pity's sake!
  • For God's sake!
  • I’m annoyed
  • I had enough with it
  • I can’t stand it
  • I can’t bear it any longer
  • I’m fed up with it
  • You made me annoyed
  • You are such pain in the neck
  • You made me sick
  • I’m extremely displeased with…
  • …is very irritating
  • I’m extremely unhappy about this
  • …really makes me mad
  • I cannot stand…
  • Why on earth he didn’t…?
After knowing common phrases and vocabularies, it is good to see the example of dialog to show annoyance and anger
A : You know George didn’t come last Saturday night
B : Really? I saw him with a girl in ABC cafe. I thought they were dating there.
A : But he said that he accompanied his mother to hospital
B : You were lied by him.
A : Yes, I know. I am annoyed. I can’t bear it any longer. It’s over.

This expression of annoyance and anger in English are taken from:
downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/howto/how_to_071205_annoyance.pdf
sayadea.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/expressing/

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