Hi, I'm Sam from BBC Learning English. People
in the UK have a reputation for saying 'sorry'
a lot, so let's have a look at different ways
you can use to do this.
So: - You can say 'sorry'
- you can 'be sorry'
- and you can 'apologise'.
In each case, you use the preposition 'to' with
a person and 'for' to give the reason you're apologising:
'I said sorry to my friend for forgetting her birthday.'
After 'for' you can use a gerund or a noun.
But if you want a simple statement to say
'I was wrong', you can use any of these.
Careful who you say these to – 'my bad!'
is very informal and you would probably only
use it after making a small mistake.
'It won’t happen again' is probably better in more
serious situations.