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Prple Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Are you finished your snack?

I heard a teacher saying the above (Are you finished your snack) at a boarding school, so I was quite wondering why she did not say: "Have you finished your snack".
So which one is correct?
  

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Are you finished your snack Have you finished your snack Both are correct. The difference is : (1) when the speaker is in impatience condition. (2) general condition ( more frequently used)

— Zenkg

  • Are you finished your snack Have you finished your snack Both are correct.
  • The difference is : (1) when the speaker is in impatience condition.
  • (2) general condition ( more frequently used)
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  1. Are you finished your snack
  2. Have you finished your snack
Both are correct.
The difference is : (1) when the speaker is in impatience condition.
(2) general condition ( more frequently used)
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PrpleI heard a teacher saying the above (Are you finished your snack) at a boarding school, so I was quite wondering why she did not say: "Have you finished your snack".So which one is correct?
Both are correct.
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[1] *"Are you finished your snack?"
[2] "Have you finished your snack?"

I daresay that colloquially you will hear [1], but strictly speaking it is ungrammatical. The verb "be" requires an adjective phrase or noun phrase or certain kinds of preposition phrase as predicative complement, but "finished your snack" is a verb phrase headed by the verb "finished". That "finished" is a verb i
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Are you finished with your snack?
Have you finished your snack?
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Cheers, makes sense!
So to speak, I could ask: "Are you finished your snacks yet?"
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PrpleCheers, makes sense!So to speak, I could ask: "Are you finished your snacks yet?"
Yes, informally.
The traditionally correct grammar is "Have you finished (eating) your snacks yet?"
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If you are potty-training your toddler, you probably at one time or the other said: "Are you finished ...? " = "Are you done....? ". No need to use "with your potty yet".
"Are you finished with your homework [yet]? " = Are you done with your homework [yet]?
It usually doesn't take too much time for someone to eat a snack, so "yet" sounds a bit odds, but not wrong.
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There is a regional thing here near Philadelphia that makes me nuts: They use "done" without "with."
I'm done my homework.
I can easily imagine "I'm done my snack" even though I haven't heard that. I don't see any difference between that and "I'm finished my snack."

I have to attribute it to regional variation and therefore acceptable as dialect, because it's really common
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  1. If it was a teacher who asked the first question, then I say she should go back to study proper English. The second question is therefore correct.
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