Help(please)
Hi, there

Could you help me? Please, I need your help

1) What's the difference between an ambassador and a career ambassador?

2) In this article, I came across this:

A: Wendy's 4for 4 is a deal
B: Hardees 4 for 4 is 10x better
C Hardee's: Amen
B:See staff. Hardee's knows

What do "is a deal", "see staff" and "hardee's knows" mean?
And shouldn't they be "Wendy's' 4 for 4 is a deal" and "Hardee's' 4 for 4 is better"?

3) Does it sound odd to use "have" here?
"I had a guy one time tell me my dollar bought me an intellectual challenge or a physical feat."
"I never had a son or daughter become a doctor, although that was always my dream."
"It would be great to go on a trip and have my brother come along."

What does have mean in these sentences? are rhey odd?

Thank you

Question

Help(please)
Hi, there

Could you help me? Please, I need your help

1) What's the difference between an ambassador and a career ambassador?

2) In this article, I came across this:

A: Wendy's 4for 4 is a deal
B: Hardees 4 for 4 is 10x better
C Hardee's: Amen
B:See staff. Hardee's knows

What do "is a deal", "see staff" and "hardee's knows" mean?
And shouldn't they be "Wendy's' 4 for 4 is a deal" and "Hardee's' 4 for 4 is better"?

3) Does it sound odd to use "have" here?
"I had a guy one time tell me my dollar bought me an intellectual challenge or a physical feat."
"I never had a son or daughter become a doctor, although that was always my dream."
"It would be great to go on a trip and have my brother come along."

What does have mean in these sentences? are rhey odd?

Thank you

Answer

Hi Jordana, this is a little difficult, but let me see what I can do to help.

An "Ambassador" is an Embaixador like every country has, a "career ambassador" (in the United States) is a special award given for excellent service as a diplomat.

For question 2, I'm afraid I don't know, I could guess, but I need more context.

3) "I had a guy tell me one time" is US English, but it essentially means "It happened to me once that a guy told me", it's quite informal language.

"I never had a son or daughter", again this sort of works, but it's not what I would consider "correct", in this instance it just means "I didn't have" but it's an awkward way to say what you mean.  I would prefer "None of my children became doctors"

"It would be great to go on a trip and have my brother come along." Is good.  It just means "It would be great to go on a trip with my brother" and it's absolutely fine.

Hope that helps.

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