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Perfect Stranger Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Native-like or not no.8 --> fell off

Hi,

How would you change this sentence?

You won't believe it! I was in a restaurant's restroom and a button fell off from my jeans! So embarrassing.
  

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Hmm. How _I_ would say this would be: "You won't believe it! I was in the bathroom at a restaurant and a button fell off my jeans!

— Arclyte

  • Hmm.
  • How _I_ would say this would be: "You won't believe it!
  • I was in the bathroom at a restaurant and a button fell off my jeans!
  • " I generally use 'bathroom' to mean anyplace with a toilet - restroom being more formal.
  • Saying "fell off of my jeans" sounds more proper to me but in a non-formal setting I'd omit it.
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Hmm. How _I_ would say this would be:

"You won't believe it! I was in the bathroom at a restaurant and a button fell off my jeans! So embarrassing."

I generally use 'bathroom' to mean anyplace with a toilet - restroom being more formal.
Saying "fell off of my jeans" sounds more proper to me but in a non-formal setting I'd omit it.
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Hmm... then what do we say once the button is gone? Should I say:

I need to have this button attached/fixed/patched up?
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If you still have the original button that popped off you'd say that you're reattaching it - "I need to have the button reattached." If you need a new button, you'd want to have it attached - "I need to have a new button attached."
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Hi,

Fell off of is quite commonly said, but makes some people who love grammar shudder. More standard is 'fell off my jeans'.

Actually, in my experience the normal verb is eg A button came off my jeans.

Re-attach is not an incorrect verb, but more common is
eg I need to sew/put it back on.
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