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When someone tells you they're back, which one will be the correct way to satisfy your curiosity — "Where were you?" or "Where have you been?"?
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Which is correct: "can tell from" or "can tell by"?
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I've heard the phrase "figure it out" or "figures" as a response when someone tells an interesting or ridiculous fact, but I can't seem to find a good analogy in Russian. Can someone help me out here?
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Which one is correct (if any at all):
take out the book from your backpack
or
take the book out of your backpack?
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Birthday presents.
I had an argument with a friend of mine the other day.
- Check this out, my cousin's gift.
- Wow, I had no idea your little cousin's rich enough to afford making such expensive presents...
- No, it's the gift that I'm going to give her for her birthday.
- So, it's *your* gift then, not *hers*?
- No, I will give it to *her*, so it's *hers* >.<
- ...
So, the question is, who's gift is it? The giver's? Or the receiver's?
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Why is it that when a lightbulb "goes off" it *stops* shining, but when an alarm "goes off" it *starts* sounding? 🤔
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A person.
Can anybody give me some explanation on this: what pronoun is used with the word "person", and is it plural or singular?
I've always thought it's "they". Even when we talk about a single hypothetical person.
Example:
"If a person is granted great power for too long, they have a good chance of going mad eventually."
So, here we have it as singular in the first part and as plural in the second one. Is that even correct?
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How come "a few" (as in "There are a few questions we should discuss today.") behaves like plural, while "a lot" (as in "There's a lot of stuff going on in my life right now.") behaves like singular?