In my experience as a native speaker in the Middle Atlantic region, there is a slight difference. "How are you?" is a bland greeting for someone you haven't seen for a while, while "How are you doing?" …

Jun 5, 2011 · When in doubt, a useful test involves substituting pronouns. Consider How is they? versus How are they? Say the wife and kid live in different places—maybe the latter is away at school—and …

Jun 29, 2015 · The 'we' in "how are we" is the same 'we' used when a teacher asks a child "Why don't we put down the toy and wash up for lunch?" Dictionary.com: you (used familiarly, often with mild …

Oct 2, 2014 · The comments so far make it pretty clear that we're dealing with a difference between U.S. and Australian usage. Living in the U.S., I hear "How're you doing?" and "How's it going?" often, and …

In a short interview where people were introducing themselves I saw something that grammatically sounds erroneous. Is the use of How's things instead of How're things a kind of expression or a simple

Dec 4, 2012 · Either of these is fine, although if you're going to use and there should be a comma. The second sentence has a silent you in it, referring back to the fact that it was the original person who …

Aug 2, 2013 · One of our users, Stan Rogers, mentioned there was such a distinction, I think, when he answered a question and talked about how the orthography of foreign loan-words typically changes …

Aug 14, 2012 · Recently a co-worker and I debated the proper use of "out to lunch". The argument stemmed from conversation over the appropriate preposition to use, and became particularly heated …