Before you make [the] bread you must knead the dough for five minutes.
Hello.
What is the difference between the two sentences below? Are both correct?
1a) Before you make bread you must knead the dough for five minutes.
1b) Before you make the bread you must knead the dough for five minutes.
By the way, which of the questions below is correct?
2a) How to make bread?
2b) How to make the bread?
Top answer
1a gives the impression that you mean making bread in general. 1b gives the impression that you mean the process of making a particular kind or particular example of bread that is already known. The same applies to 2a and 2b.
- 1a gives the impression that you mean making bread in general.
- 1b gives the impression that you mean the process of making a particular kind or particular example of bread that is already known.
- The same applies to 2a and 2b.
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1a gives the impression that you mean making bread in general.
1b gives the impression that you mean the process of making a particular kind or particular example of bread that is already known.
The same applies to 2a and 2b.
01a and 1b mean the same. I'd use b.
2a is correct.
Note that kneading the dough and leaving it to rise are part of the process of making bread.
Perhaps you mean 'Before you bake the bread ...'
0Rover_KEI'd use b.
...the process of making bread.
This is interesting, you said you would use b (with 'the') and at the same time in another sentence you spontaneously said 'making bread' (without 'the'). May I ask why? What is a decisive factor here?
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