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- Now we’re talking! - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
In Inside Out, Joy says: Now we're talking! Let's go get our stuff from the moving van! What does Now we're talking! mean? Is it slang meaning something special?
- English Future : Were staying - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Here are some possible differences: "We're staying" is in the present continuous tense which implies that the decision to stay has already been made and is currently in progress or happening So it could be argued that, when a person says this, they have already made the decision (even if only just at that moment) and are completely resolved
- prepositions - Were halfway through into the month - English Language . . .
If it's December 3rd, then we're all the way through November, right? But what would it mean to say that we're all the way into a month That's unclear You can't guess what the speaker is trying to communicate Consider an analogy: Suppose I walk in the front door of a house, pass through the house, and exit by the back door
- grammar - Why were seeing is used not we see in . . . So were . . .
So we're certainly seeing, by some accounts, up to almost 100 pounds of cardboard per household per year set out at the curb Joshua Goodman is the Deputy Commissioner of Public Affairs and Customer Experience at the New York City Department of Sanitation LONGMAN and Oxford say that the progressive tense can't be used for see in most situations
- meaning - Were out of time. Were running out of time - English . . .
We're out of time means that the allotted time has been used It is finished We're running out of time means that we are coming to the end of your allotted time but there is still time if you hurry
- When to use were gonna be talking about rather than were gonna . . .
A presentation is likely to be introduced as, "we're going to talk about XYZ " (Nobody would introduce a formal presentation using "gonna" ) A moderator of a discussion group might introduce the subject with, "we're going to be talking about XYZ " The talking will be more of a process But in everyday speech, either could be used in most cases
- meaning - Were staying with friends. | Does this sentence mean We . . .
0 "We're staying with friends " When I read the sentence, I thought The friends have come to our house, so we are with them in our house However, as the story goes, I understood that it was just the opposite I found out that the speaker was in their friends' house So, I wondered whether this misunderstanding is caused by my native language
- meaning in context - Are we good? vs. Are we good to go? - English . . .
What is the difference in meaning between: Are we good? or: We're good? and: Are we good to go? I would appreciate it if you could as well give some examples for usage of each phrase
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