The phrase "properly thank" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically means to show proper or appropriate gratitude or appreciation. Example: The company requested that all employees properly thank their colleagues for their hard work during the project. In this sentence, "properly thank" means to express sincere thanks or gratitude to colleagues in an appropriate manner.
It's a shame the end has come so suddenly, there's so many people I haven't got round to properly thank or say goodbye too.
Many of the faithful here believe that the rope transmits the divine energy of the Virgin of Nazareth and that by touching it they can attain a state of grace or properly thank her for favors granted.
There's so many people I haven't got round to properly thank or say goodbye to.
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Will you please write down your name and address so we can properly thank you?" I passed over a sheet of paper, which the young woman took and on which she started writing.
"I'm sorry I've been so delinquent in sending this note -- as you may know, I changed jobs/moved/got pregnant/hid under the bed as soon as we got back from the honeymoon and it delayed my ability to properly thank you for your thoughtful gift.
I haven't been properly thanked, but he e-mails me all the time.
At three years old, it is the first time she's properly thanked me for anything.
Seligman has created what he calls the gratitude visit, which works like this: You think of a person in your life who has been kind to you but whom you've never properly thanked.
The inmates the law officers assaulted deserve the compensation they have recently been awarded, but it is anomalous indeed for victims who were serving time to be paid while victims who were serving the state and people of New York have been neither compensated nor even properly thanked.
I was in my mid-40s before I properly thanked my father for his decades of hard work — paying for me to laze around in the cars he bought me, to get drunk in the frat house whose dues he paid, to spend the afternoons with my girlfriends looking at trees and rivers while Pop worked and got so anxious that he took up smoking three packs of Kents a day.
