1 how are things is a more colloquial way of greeting, indicating how things are going.
Smith is the most common surname in Britain.
This is the beginning of the traditional holiday shopping season.
Touch touch, the whole sentence means, don't really touch your cheek with your lips, because it is an imperative sentence, so use the prototype of tough.
5. invited, the whole sentence means that a friend of mine invited me to her house for dinner tomorrow, because she has indicated that she wants to use the present perfect tense, so she uses the past participle of invited.
How many things are there on the list? How many at the beginning of a sentence means using plural items?