Meaning, please:) A few weeks ago, my Health teacher set up a competition, saying the winning group would win an extra credit point. We were separated into five groups; water, electricity, food, paper, and gas. Each group had to come up with at least twenty ways to preserve their element. The group that came up with the most solutions would win the extra credit point. Near the end of the of the class, the teacher had reported that there were two winning teams; electricity, and gas. They had tied equally with very good responses. The teacher then said that both of those teams would need to come up with a final way to preserve their element, and whoever had the best one, would be determined the winner. "I'll pick the best one tomorrow," she said. "I'll need both teams to speak with me. Alright, who has gas?" Several students shot their hands up in the air before they realized exactly what she had said. One was laughing so hard that tears rolled down her face. -Member of the electricity group.

Meaning, please:) joke: Stress Relief. It was late in the evening and I was studying in the university library's reading room. It was in the middle of final exams, so the library was a hectic place with students milling around everywhere. I was sitting at my desk with my pile of books and felt the need for a nap before I continued with my work. I wasn't asleep long before I was awakened by laughter. To my surprise, everyone who was laughing was also looking at me. I looked around the room, silently pleading for answers, when someone next to me leaned over and whispered, "You were farting in your sleep."

As angry as I was when he left us, building this rocket with him made me an engineer. Hi, there! I'm interested in construction "As angry as I was" in this sentence. Could you bring grammatical explanation to this construction and more examples? And how can we replace it, "even though I was angry"?

"It was inspiring" vs "It was inspired" - what the difference? Hi, there! In general, I know the difference between -ing and -ed endings, but this particular case confuses me.

He makes more money than I do. Is it alright? Because it doesn't seem alright:) ( I mean, he Makes and I Do-thing)

Make ends meet (to have little money to live on) Hi, there! In Russian we have an expression, which sounds exactly the same, as "make ends meet". (Сводить концы с концами) My question is, how come, that in completely different languages idiomatic way of saying that someone has little money to live on sounds the same?