“It will be a great honour to us”. Is it correct?
Yes, it is.
Hi Sam,
Your sentence:
sounds odd to me without knowing the context. I would say: It will be a great honour for us . Perhaps you could explain some more about how you want to use the sentence.
Alan
To me, the difference is whether someone’s act honors you or your act honors someone else. That, of course, often comes down to perception.
I would interpret the original poster’s version as something honoring “us.”
Your decision to rerecord our song is an honor to us.
I would take “honor for us” as an act we are doing for someone else or something that humbles us because the other person is so great.
It would be an honor for us to introduce you at the award ceremony.
Your decision to rerecord our song is an honor for us (because you are so great).
I would interpret the latter sentence as “We feel honored (and humbled) to have someone as great as you record a song by us.”
Hi,
I feel if you are using ‘to’ in this context, you need to bridge the gap and say something like: It is an honour you are showing/shown/granted/(to) bestowed on us.
Alan
If somebody accepts my invitation, can I say “It will be a great honour to me”?
Sometimes that may be clearer, but I think there are many times that would be unnecessary.
Your moral courage is an honor to your parents.
I feel that “for” would make it seem we were referring to the parents’ perception or our assumptions about their perception.
I would say yes.
If you want to place more emphasis on your humility, you can use “for.” I suspect this is what you have in mind anyway.
Hi,
I think we’ll have to beg to differ on this. This isolated ‘to’ in this context still sounds wonky to me.
Alan
I am interested and have a feeling that,
A great honour to us = A great honour (coming from the source of being honoured) to us >> to route the honour.
A great honour for us = A great honour for (the benefit of) us >> to equate us with the honour.