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Bookmark or Share- What's a polite way of asking "who are you?" on the phone?It's used on the phone, but I can also see it being used across a closed door for example. Both cases where you might know the person but don't have enough info to tell; "who is this" is like you're talking to them as "person who might help me know who is on the phone", not as "person on the phone".
- grammar - utility's VS utilities VS utility - English Language Learners ...Possession, e.g, Alex's bag. To shorten a word, e.g haven't. If you were to say "utility's" it would mean that the utility is owning something. I assume that that's not the case, and you were talking about the pilot utilities, plural form of utility, without an apostrophe. Thus, utilities should be the correct word to use.
- "Hello, This is" vs "My Name is" or "I am" in self introductionThat's because you expect that the people you are talking to probably know who you are, or at least could look at the list of invitees, but they don't necessarily know that this voice is yours. "Hello, this is James" was also a common way for someone named James to answer the phone, back in the days when phones were more tied to a location than ...
- When a word ends in 's' or 'x', do you add 's or just anOne would certainly say "Alex's" and not "Alex'." For names ending in the letter s, either just ' or 's is acceptable, although I believe that 's is more common with the plain ' being reserved for plurals that end in s. For example, one would say "That is Dolores's car," but you would say "That is the lions' pen."
- personal pronouns - "than her" versus "than she" - English Language ..."Alex is more soft-spoken than she." "Alex is more soft-spoken than her friend." Now, append the word "is" to the above two sentences: "Alex is more soft-spoken than she is." "Alex is more soft-spoken than her friend is." They still make sense, although neither is considered good writing (they aren't wrong, per se, but they ain't great shakes ...
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