something is gone!
when I found we used out of the salt and I try to tell my roommate about it. what is the better expression: the salt is gone or the salt has gone? is "something is/has gone " a very common expression to say something be used up?

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something is gone!
when I found we used out of the salt and I try to tell my roommate about it. what is the better expression: the salt is gone or the salt has gone?  is "something is/has gone " a very common expression to say something be used up?

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There's no more salt. 
There's no salt left.
The salt is finished.

When something is used up, use: There is no more..../There are no more...

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You can say, "I think  we're out of salt/we've run out of salt and we'll have to buy some more".

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unless the 'salt' walked by itself away from it's place then you can use the adjective 'gone'. Eliot's suggestions are great.

or you can express : "the salt is no longer available" / "we've consumed all the salt"

:)

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As for your original question of "something is gone" vs "something has gone," you would use "something is gone." In addition to what Eliot said, you can also just say "the salt is gone."

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When I discovered we had used up all the salt, I wanted to tell my roommate about it.

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