You can only put two people in a love seat
At a furniture store
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Woman: Oh, what's the difference between a love seat and a sofa?
Seller: Oh, as you can see there, there is only two cushions
in the love seat where there is three in the sofa,
so that really you can only put two people in a love seat,
but you can get three or four people in a sofa.
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1- What does "you can only put two people in a love seat"?
2- What does "you can get three or four people in a sofa"?
3- What do "put" and "get" mean in these two sentences?
Thank you
Top answer
"put" means something like "place". It is essentially the same meaning as, for example, when you put an item in a drawer or a cupboard. Here "get" means something like "cause to be placed/positioned".
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"put" means something like "place". It is essentially the same meaning as, for example, when you put an item in a drawer or a cupboard.
Here "get" means something like "cause to be placed/positioned".
I would say "on a sofa" not "in".
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