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Vincent Teo Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

A barbacue dinner

Can I say,

That night we had a barbacue dinner / we had barbacue dinner by the beach. (without any article before dinner, right?)
  

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Hi VT The collocation "barbecue dinner" is not natural the way you are trying to use it. You can say this: - That night we had a barb e cue at/on/near the beach. Or you can say something like this: - That night we had barb e cue d chicken at/on/near the beach.

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  • Hi VT The collocation "barbecue dinner" is not natural the way you are trying to use it.
  • You can say this: - That night we had a barb e cue at/on/near the beach.
  • Or you can say something like this: - That night we had barb e cue d chicken at/on/near the beach.
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Hi VT

The collocation "barbecue dinner" is not natural the way you are trying to use it. You can say this:

- That night we had a barbecue at/on/near the beach.

Or you can say something like this:

- That night we had barbecued chicken at/on/near the beach.
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