The speech act given to my group was the compliment act. Complimenting is the act of praising someone for their appearance, actions, or any other quality. Each member of the group collected data from ten different sources in order to discover patterns and generalizations of the act of complimenting. Later in class, we interviewed Pastor Myungku Lee, who came to the United States from South Korea. He gave us a lot of insight into how compliments are handled in South Korea, both in the past and today. As a group, we discussed the similarities and differences we found when comparing our data to the information provided by Pastor Lee. Through this process, we were also able to connect the data to the readings we participated in in class. In this article, I plan to discuss the aforementioned topics and provide examples to demonstrate my understanding of the speech act of compliments. The first step in our project was to find patterns in the data we each collected on campus. As our group consisted of four women and one man, all the statistics could have been skewed. In an effort to make the results fairer, I will only use data provided by one man and one woman. Because we attend a college in Midwestern Indiana, almost all of our observations involved students ages 18-22 from the Midwest. Therefore, we found no definitive trends based on age or location. However, we found trends in the following areas: the subject of the compliment, the manner in which the compliment was given, the manner in which the compliment was responded to, the gender of the person giving the compliment, the gender of the recipient of the compliment complement and the relationship between the participants. compliments were very often appearance compliments, followed by action-based compliments (Figure 1). “Your hair is really cute!” was one of many examples of personality compliments. Second, we found that there was a common linguistic pattern used when giving compliments; almost all people used short phrases such as "I like your _____" or "It looks ______." There was more variation in responses to compliments; some people responded with a simple "Thank you" or smiled while others added more information or tried to deny the compliment..