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sentence structure - How is this called vs What is this called . . . In American English, it's definitely "What is this called?" "How is this called" is a common mistake with second language learners If this phrasing is used, it will signal to any native speakers viewing the diagram that it was created by a learner In the Google nGram data, "How is this called" doesn't even appear
grammaticality - Hows things? or How are things? - English . . . In a short interview where people were introducing themselves I saw something that grammatically sounds erroneous Is the use of How's things instead of How're things a kind of expression or a simple
word choice - Is it what it looks like or how it looks like . . . Just BTW, this is an example I often use when people ask what an "idiom" is If someone asks, "How does Sally look?", if I interpret the question literally, I might answer, "With her eyes " But the answer the person is really expecting is more likely, "She's very pretty" or "She looks terrible since she caught that disease" or some such
How much is that this it? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange All 3 are natural in the right context " How much is this? " - referring to something close to the speaker, often something currently held in her hands Pointing at something and calling it "this" can be a tiny bit awkward, but acceptable as long as it's close " How much is that? " - referring to something the speaker is referencing, such as by pointing to Additional alternate use is
How to use the personal pronoun when answer Is this. . . . ? The reason here is because the it in the answer is referring to the subject being queried in the question - which is this, which has indeterminate (neutral) gender and is hence an it - not your mother (which has female gender and hence would be she) Is this your mother? No it isn't Is Hannah your mother? No she isn't Is David your mother? No he isn't If we change the subject of the question
grammaticality - How are or How is the wife and kid? - English . . . When in doubt, a useful test involves substituting pronouns Consider How is they? versus How are they? Say the wife and kid live in different places—maybe the latter is away at school—and you want to express this independence, you might use How is the wife? The kid? Any more explicit and the repetitiveness will be tiresome
How to answer “Is this John?” on phone [closed] The technically correct answer is "This is he" This is because the verb "to be" is mostly used in a special form called the copula, or less precisely "linking verb " With copulative verbs no action is indicated, rather a state of being is indicated, and so the second substantive, called the predicate, doesn't take the objective case Which is to say, both take the nominative form, the second