Hello dear students. This post is about greetings. There are some formal and some informal. Read them, learn them and know how to use them!

English Greeting Expressions (Formal and Informal)

There are many ways of greeting people, both formal and informal.

§  General greetings (Formal)

1.    Hello!

2.    How are you?

3.    How are you doing?

4.    How is everything?

5.    How’s everything going?

6.    How have you been keeping?

7.    I trust that everything is well.

General greetings (Informal)

8.    Hi.

9.    What’s up?

10.  Good to see you.

11.  How are things (with you)?

12.  How’s it going?

13.  How’s life been treating you?

Greeting a person you haven’t seen for a long time (Formal)

14.  It has been a long time.

15.  It’s been too long.

16.  What have you been up to all these years?

17.  It’s always a pleasure to see you.

18.  How long has it been?

19.  I’m so happy to see you again.

Greeting a person you haven’t seen for a long time (Informal)

§  How come I never see you?

§  It’s been such a long time.

§  Long time no see.

§  Where have you been hiding?

§  It’s been ages since we last met.