Fascinating exercise! I got all correct. Do you have a minute? - Why? makes me think over it. I guess it. Could you explain WHY we use such an answer? Thank you in advance.
when we ask 'Do you have a minute?', we are saying that we need to speak to a person about something. The 'why?' response means, 'what do you want' or more closely 'why do you need to speak to me?'
'I'm staying with my cousin' means that I am staying in my cousin's house.
'With' shows us that we are doing something together with another person - in this case 'staying'.
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Fascinating exercise! I got all correct. Do you have a minute? - Why? makes me think over it. I guess it. Could you explain WHY we use such an answer? Thank you in advance.
Do you have a minute?
when we ask 'Do you have a minute?', we are saying that we need to speak to a person about something. The 'why?' response means, 'what do you want' or more closely 'why do you need to speak to me?'
why
Now I see. It wasn't obvious for me. Thank you.
one mistake about staying
one mistake about staying with cousin, still can not understand why
RE; With my cousin
'I'm staying with my cousin' means that I am staying in my cousin's house.
'With' shows us that we are doing something together with another person - in this case 'staying'.