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Ungkapan rasa simpati (expressing sympathy) di gunakan untuk menyatakan rasa simpati kepada seseorang atas suatu kejadian, baik kabar menggembirakan atau tidak.

Ungkapan simpati terhadap sesuatu yang menggembirakan:
- Great!
- Fantastic!
- How nice!
- How exciting!
- How wonderful!
- I'm pleased to hear that!
- I'm (very) glad to hear that!
- Nice to hear that!

Ungkapan Simpati terhadap sesuatu yang tidak menyenangkan:
- I'm sorry to hear that.
- Oh, poor Jane. What happened to her?
- How awful!
- That's too bad.
- How terrible!

Untuk merespon ungkapan simpati, kita dapat mengucapkan:
- Thanks/ thank you
- Right
- You're right
- That's right

Exercise
1. Amir : Have you visited Bob? He got an accident last week.
Yuni : Oh, poor Bob. I hope he'll be better soon.
the bold type sentence expresses....
a. sadness
b. pleasure
c. sympathy
d. expectation
e. satisfaction

2. Cathy : Why do you look so sad?
Larry : Didn't you hear the news last night? the volcano eruption has killed more than two hundred people in my village.
Cathy : I'm Sorry to hear that.
Cathy expresses her.........
a. fear
b. sadness
c. apology
d. surprise
e. sympathy.