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Vincent Teo Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

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0Can I say,02br
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00(a) You can heat / heat up the frying pan with a little oil on a stove.02br
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00(b) When the bananas turns in / into (the) light brown, it is ready to be served.02br
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00(c) When the frying pan is hot, dip the bananas into the batter.02br
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00(d) You can fry them (until) light brown.02br
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00 You can fry them until they become / turn (into / to) light brown.02br
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00(e) When it turns brown, serve them hot with chilli sauce.02br
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00 When it is done, serve them with a cup of coffee.0-
  

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02br 02br 00(c) When the frying pan is hot, dip the bananas in01del 01b 00to02b 02del 00 the batter. 02br 02br 00This depends on what 'it' is: "When 01b 00it02b 00 turns brown, serve 01b 00them02b 00 with chilli sauce". If 'it' is not a reference to "them", then this is ok.

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  • 02br 02br 00(c) When the frying pan is hot, dip the bananas in01del 01b 00to02b 02del 00 the batter.
  • 02br 02br 00This depends on what 'it' is: "When 01b 00it02b 00 turns brown, serve 01b 00them02b 00 with chilli sauce".
  • If 'it' is not a reference to "them", then this is ok.
  • " "It" and "them" are different things in this example.
  • However, if "it" and "them" refer to the same thing, then it should be "When 01b 00they02b 00 turn brown, serve 01b 00them02b 00 hot with chilli sauce".
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0Can I say,02br
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00(a) You can 01del00heat02del00 / heat up the frying pan with a little oil on a stove.02br
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00(b) When the bananas 01del00turns in / into (the)02del00 01font00turn02font00 light brown, it is ready to be served.02br
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10(a) You can 11del10heat12del10 / heat up the frying pan with a little oil on a stove. (why can't we say, "heat" the frying pan?) 12br
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10(b) When the bananas 11del10turn in / into (the)12del10 11
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0Hi Vincent,02br
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00Can you please try to use a larger font?02br
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0 Batter-dipped, fried bananas WITH CHILI SAUCE???? Wow, there's a cultural difference! If someone asked me what I would put on fried bananas it would probably be chocolate sauce. (Or rum sauce, like Bananas Foster, except that I don't like rum.) Interesting! 0-
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00Can I say,02h3

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00(a) You can heat / heat up the frying pan with a little oil on a stove. (why can't we say, "heat" the frying pan?) 02h3

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00 (b) When the bananas turn in / into (the) turn light brown, it is ready to be served. (why 'turn in / turn into" can't be used?) 02h3

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00(c) When the frying pan is hot

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0Hi Vincent -- sometimes we can't explain why one way sounds more natural than another. Sometimes (heat the frying pan /heat up the frying pan; dip the banana in/into the batter) a native speaker might prefer one version, but the other version would also be acceptable. In other cases, some of your versions are just wrong, just because the phrase is not used that way (bananas "turn brown," they
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0When talking about something changing colour, we do not say "into". For example: "The sky turned red at sunset". We wouldn't say "The sky turned into red". Generally, where the colour comes directly after 'turned', do not say "into". Hence, "when the bananas turn brown..."02br
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00Also, in cooking, we do not say 'into' either when talking about an action such as dipp
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