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?"?
Which is correct: "can tell from" or "can tell by"?
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?
Which one is correct (if any at all):
take out the book from your backpack
or
take the book out of your backpack?
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?
Why is it that when a lightbulb "goes off" it *stops* shining, but when an alarm "goes off" it *starts* sounding? 🤔
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?
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?