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Ask for help > wage and salary // run into and run across
wage and salary // run into and run across
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chenchen_castrourdiales
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wage and salary // run into and run across
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hi everybody,
I have been preparing my Monday �s lesson and one exercise is about filling the gaps with the words salary and wage but even after looking up in an English dictionary I can distinguish the context in which they are used. Could you please help me?
On the other hand, can we run across people and run into things? Or do we just run into or bump into people when finding people by chance and run across is just used when we are talking about finding things by chance? Thanks in advance. |
19 Jun 2010
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sulekra
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I run into things all the time. But this is literally, not as a phrasal verb, as in the wardrobe I ran into;)
Just as you can run across a country, you could run across people if a hundred or so laid down side-by-side and you went jogging hehe...
But as you said, with the phrasal verbs - run across=things/ideas, run into = people
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19 Jun 2010
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sulekra
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As for salary vs. wage, I understand salary as monthly/yearly earnings, and wage as hourly/weekly earnings...
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19 Jun 2010
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fifey
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If someone is salaried it means they get an agreed amount annually. This is usually divided by 12 and this would be the sum of money received each month. Plus any additional things that would be included in your contract such as holidays.
A wage can be hourly paid, so for example it would depend on what you earned that month, and not be the same amount each month. Hope this helps.
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20 Jun 2010
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