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Tonight my tutor asked me "How are you? Any news?" I answered "The sky". She told this expression was way too informal and most of people couldn't understand the meaning. It's better not to use it. Is it right? Can you help me and write some other good formal and informal replicas for such situations!
I know phrases: I'm fine, thanks
everything is OK
I'm OK (and something like these)))
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This evening my tutor asked me, "How are you? Any news?" I answered, "The sky". She explained that this expression was way too informal and mostI know these phrases:
I'm fine, thanks
everything is OK
I'm OK (and so on) :)
Yes, it sounds like a smart-alec answer to "What's up?", as Mike said. It doesn't match your tutor's question, and just sounds confusing. Sometimes people will take you literally (on purpose!) if you use an expression.
The other problem is that if a "clever comment" stops a conversation and causes confusion, then it isn't really clever.
"I'm fine thanks" is a perfectly good answer to "How are you?" You don't need to analyse the question. But if you want to say you feel great, not so good, feeling awful (and start a conversation about it), then say that.
For "Any news?", that's a conversation-starter. If you don't want to talk in detail just say, "not much" or "no news here". But obviously your tutor wants you to talk, so: "Well, the news here is..."
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do you mean - "what's up".. "the sky". This at least makes sense, but its stupid and not funny. If someone asks how u are just say you are fine.
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My previous tutor used this expression and it means that nothing special is happening, now news
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Where did you find this expression "The sky"? I have a huge vocabulary and I've never met "The sky" as an answer to when somebody is asking about how I am. Well, from now on, I'm going to respond whenever somebody asks me "How are you?" - "The sky" as a joke. How can you say I go about things the wrong way? I am Human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does...
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я бы тоже с удовольствием послушала, какие можно использовать выражения =)
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