English Language is one of the Languages spoken by a great number of people round the globe today. Study has shown that it is the second most spoken language after Chinese Language. Thus, while it has transmogrified from the old norfs or nomadic language, the Old English, Middle English and presently the Modern English, it has not stopped changing in terms of syntax, spellings, and word class. In other words English changes a lot and if one is still living in the past, one may be caught napping and outdated with the updates in English Language.

In view of this, some English spellings in the old and middle English has changed and it's over taken by the modern English Language. More so, the Shakespearean English off the Middle Age is in this modern times considered ungrammatical. This shows the extent at which English Language has transformed itself.

Need I tell you about the transformation in some of the figures of speech and proverbs which has been updated?

Examples

1. Birds of the same feather flock together (Wrong)
   Birds of a feather, flock together (correct)
2. Do not point accusing finger at someone (wrong)
   Do not point a finger at him/her (correct)

I'll reserve the explanation to that for another lesson.

Now the matter off the day

When someone says: "How do you do?"
He/She is not asking the question because he wants to know about your welfare. If He did, then the question he/she would have asked is:
How are you? or How are you doing
In such case, your welfare is important to the person, that is why he asks the question. "How are you"?

Take note that the response to these questions would be dependent on the state of mind of the person. Hence, he/she could respond thus:
a. I am fine or I am doing fine.
b. I am okay or everything is okay.
c. I am not feeling okay.
d. I am tired.
e. I feeling kinda wired. etc.
Believe me, the response would always differ.

However, in the case where someone tells you "how do you do", you should note the following?

EXPLANATIONS

1. The above quoted expression is a statement, not a question.
2. Since the expression isn't a question, it doesn't need a response like other question does.
3. The expression isn't aimed at knowing about how you are feeling.
4. It is rather expressed as a form of greeting or a complement.

In view of the above, it would sound so wired if you should respond to a complement as though it were a question.

Now imagine if you said Good Morning to a friend, and he/she responds I am fine, thank you instead of the conventional "Good Morning."

So please and please, read over this lesson again and ensure that you learn the correct thing so as to serve yourself an embarrassing scene occasioned by your wired response.

Feel free to ask me any question concerning this lesson or any other topic of interest about English Language, I sure would be glad to respond to your queries as well as learn from you too.

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