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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

buy (the) pizza

Dear Forum Members,
Can you please clarify here:

i) We're having a pizza party! We'll buy THE pizza from Mario's.
I think "the pizza" is correct. It's the pizza we'll have at the pizza party (the party provides the context).

but
ii) We're having a pizza party! We'll buy pizza from Mario's.
Is this correct too? I think it works too if the emphasis is not on the pizza implied by "pizza party" but on the pizza we'll buy from Mario's. We're not going to buy all the pizza from Mario's, just some. Is this correct if I omit the article?

Thanks!!
  

Top answer

i) This is correct. ii) This is also correct. " is also correct.

— Anonymous

  • i) This is correct.
  • ii) This is also correct.
  • " is also correct.
  • All three of the above can be used.
  • The choice of which one to use would be determined more by the style of speech of the speaker, rather than by strict grammatical guidelines.
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i) This is correct.

ii) This is also correct.

iii) "We'll buy a pizza from Mario's." is also correct.

All three of the above can be used. The choice of which one to use would be determined more by the style of speech of the speaker, rather than by strict grammatical guidelines. "Pizza" might tend to be used by child or an exuberant person, and more by a female t
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Anonymousi) We're having a pizza party! We'll buy THE pizza from Mario's.I think "the pizza" is correct. It's the pizza we'll have at the pizza party (the party provides the context).butii) We're having a pizza party! We'll buy pizza from Mario's.Is this correct too? I think it works too if the emphasis is not on the pizza implied by "pizza party" but on the pizza we'll b
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Anonymous "Pizza" might tend to be used by child or an exuberant person, and more by a female than a male (in the US). "The pizza" might tend to be used more by an older person, and more by a male than a female. "A pizza" might tend to be used if the speaker is close to the listener, for example, a spouse or significant other.
I don't recognise any of these di
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GPYI agree with most of that.I don't think the second sentence in itself necessarily implies "We're not going to buy all the pizza from Mario's, just some". If the context was "We're having a party! We'll buy pizza from Mario's", I would probably assume that all the pizza came from that one place, just because that is (I imagine) what people normally do. However, because
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ANONYMOUS: "Pizza" might tend to be used by child or an exuberant person, and more by a female than a male (in the US). "The pizza" might tend to be used more by an older person, and more by a male than a female. "A pizza" might tend to be used if the speaker is close to the listener, for example, a spouse or significant other.GPYI don't recognise any of these dist
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