The speech act assigned to my group was the act of complimenting. Giving a compliment is the act of praising someone for their appearance, actions, or other qualities. Each team member collected data from ten different sources 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 information about 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 Pastor Lee provided. Through this process, we were also able to relate the data to the readings we attended during the lesson. In this article, I intend to discuss the above-mentioned topics and provide examples to demonstrate my understanding of the speech act of compliments. The first step of our project was to find patterns in the data we each collected on campus. Since our group consisted of four females and one male, any statistics could have been skewed. In an effort to make the results more equitable, I will only use data provided by one male and one female. Since we are attending a Midwestern college in Indiana, almost all of our observations were of 18- to 22-year-old students from the Midwest. Therefore, we found no definitive patterns based on age or location. However, we found patterns in the following areas: the topic of the compliment, the way the compliment was given, the way the compliment was responded to, the gender of the person giving the compliment, the gender of the person receiving the compliment, and the relationship between the participants. compliments were most often appearance-based, followed by action-based compliments (Figure 1). “Your hair is really cute!” was one of many examples of a personality receiving compliments. Second, we found that there was a common linguistic pattern used during compliments; almost every single person used short phrases like “I like your _____” or “It looks like ______.” 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.