If the Shoe Fits, Wear It.

Sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we end up [1] in a situation that we’re not usually accustomed to, and we say the shoe is on the other foot. As a teacher, he never realized how hard it was to learn a language, but now he’s studying Chinese, so the shoe’s on the other foot. To avoid an awkward situation, it is always a good idea to imagine yourself in another person’s situation., to be in someone else’s shoes. You have to be more sympathetic with the immigrants, put yourself in their shoes. When a negative trait applies to someone, we can say the unkind expression if the shoe fits, wear it! How can you say that I’m racist? Well, if the shoe fits wear it!

Fit means that something is the right size [2]. But one thing is that something fits you and another if it looks good on you, or whether it suits you. In either case, fit or suit, the clothes are the subject while the person wearing the clothes is the object. For example: These pants don’t fit me. That dress really suits you. And in the case of fit, an object isn’t necessary if its obvious: These pants don’t fit __.

Before you know what fits or suits you, it’s important to know what you can wear. You see we wear things that we have on our bodies, such as clothes, jewelry and glasses. Don’t confuse wear with carry. We carry things that we have with us, usually held in our hand, on our shoulders or on our backs. For example, we wear a shirt, a necklace and sunglasses but we carry a pocketbook, a backpack or shopping bags.

Now that you know what you can wear, it’s important to point out that there are several pieces of clothes that are irregular, they are both plural and uncountable at the same time! Including the word clothes itself, these irregular nouns include pants, jeans, shorts and glasses.

They’re plural by the fact that they end in an S and when used as subjects, they use third-person-plural verbs. These clothes look nice! Whose glasses are these? These pants keep falling, I need a belt!

But they’re also uncountable, so you can’t use a or an or a number before them. If you do want to count clothes, you have to use a unit, in this case, pair. A pair of jeans. A pair of glasses.

Now, you’re ready to go out in fashion!

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[1] acabar, [2] talla