Questions swimming in my mind about English sentences
This semester in the English class in basic things for example "Describing myself" when I thing about some question as "What is your name?" inmediatly I think WHY! why is the reason to use WHAT instead of use WHICH because we are referring a thing, a name, I don't understand this!
The other question is about the difference in the use of the sentence I AM 24..... and don't use I HAVE 25... because in my opinion the sentence I AM is insensitive, don't have much human sense. It's contradictory for me and rest me time when need to translate something quickly.
PS: If you want, you can add your answer about this things in response of this. Thanks for read (Y)
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Hey Alan!
To answer your questions..
1. "Which" is used instead of "What" when you are asking a question with choices. For example: Which car do you like, the blue one or the red one? Which jacket should I wear, black or white? Or maybe you are at a bakery looking at a hundred different cookies.. you can ask, "Which cookie is the best?!"
2. For the age thing... that is just how we say it in English =) It is something common that many non-native speakers get wrong, because in many languages you say "I HAVE 24 years". In English it is always "I AM 24" or "I AM 24 years old". Never "I AM 24 years".
Hope this helps.
Joe
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