Casual Greetings with " how" & "what".

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]Basic Greetings in English

An English conversation a conversation usually starts with a question. There are two kinds of questions we use – how and what. Here are some examples of each:

How are you? What’s new?
How’s it going? What’s up?
How’s life? What’s going on?
How’s everything? What’s shaking?

The how questions ask about our feeling or condition, so the answers are something like this. The closer you are with the person, the deeper the answer you expect to hear / give:

How are you? → Not too bad
How’s it going? → Pretty good
How’s life? → Great!
How’s everything? → I’m ok.

The what questions ask about news or information about us, so the answers are something like this:

What’s new? → Not much
What’s up? → I just finished work
What’s going on? → I’m going on vacation next week
What’s shaking? → I bought an iPad!

Please be careful not to confuse the type of questions someone asks:

Joe: What’s up?
Bob: Fine! ← (the wrong answer, so Joe is confused!)
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