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New Hope Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Do we need "the" here?

Which is correct here, the food or food?
At weekends, he goes to the market to sell (the) food we grow in the fields.
  

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haroon rashid the food or food I find either version acceptable. CJ

  • haroon rashid the food or food I find either version acceptable.
  • CJ
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haroon rashidthe food or food
I find either version acceptable.

CJ
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haroon rashidAt weekends, he goes to the market to sell (the) food we grow in the fields.
More naturally, " On the weekends, he sells the produce, which he grows in the field, in the market"
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AnonymousMore naturally, " On the weekends, he sells the produce, which he grows in the field, in the market"
Not natural at all, and you have changed the meaning.

On weekends, he goes to the market to sell the vegetables (produce is OK, too)we grow in our fields.

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