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Bookmark or Share- "Take a rest" or "have some rest"? - English Language & Usage Stack ...Common American English would use "take a break" or "get some rest", using "rest" as a noun. It is almost never used as "take a rest" by native English speakers in the USA. However, this phrase is very commonly taught to and used by EFL/ESL learners in Asia.
- When to use "Do you mind…?" and when "Would you mind…?"Not disagreeing with User58319, but have something to add. "Do you mind?" is used most typically when you propose doing something that you know jolly well I am not going to like.
- "Have a look" vs. "Take a look" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeSo, a police officer brings you in for questioning and tells you to "Take a seat" (if they don't just straight out command you to "Sit down"), but if you go over to a friend's house they ask you to "Have a seat." (though they could use "Take a seat" as well) Or you go to the DMV (or some place where there is a queue) and they tell you to "Take ...
- "Chair" or "chairman?" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange1. a seat for one person, with a back-support and usually four legs. 2. the office of chairman or chairwoman at a meeting, etc, or the person holding this office. 3. a professorship. 4. ... verb (chaired, chairing) 1. to control or conduct (a meeting) as chairman or chairwoman. 2. ... 3. to place someone in a seat of authority. in the chair ...
- "Put it at the backseat" or "Put it onto the backseat"?“But questions like these take a back seat to more pressing concerns” “Whatever biological imperatives this trip began with, they’re now taking a back seat to male pride” There aren’t any idiomatic uses of put * the backseat in the COCA so I don’t think the idiom you thought you were trying to use is one that is in common use.
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