English Lessons
“I didn't even know who any of the candidates were in most of the races.”
You voted in a political election today. You didn't know who many of the people on the ballot were. Now you're talking with a friend about the situation.
“Can I get change for a twenty?”
You have a twenty-dollar bill, but you need 20 one-dollar bills instead. You go to a bank and ask the teller this.
“Do you want that all in ones?”
A customer at your part-time job asks you for change for a $20 bill. You want to know if they need 20 one-dollar bills, two ten-dollar bills, four five-dollar bills, or some other combination. You ask this.
“What'd you do, just pick people randomly?”
You were talking with your friend about voting in the recent election. He said that when he voted, he didn't know anything about the candidates. You wonder how he decided who to vote for, so you ask him this.
“So the work we did was all for nothing?”
You have been working on a project for a few months at work, and it's almost finished. Your coworker just told you that a high-level director in the company wants to change part of the project, which means that you will have to re-do several weeks...
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