eat/take

PASTELDo you eat vitamin C or take vitamin C?

Thanks,

If you mean the vitamin C pill, take is much more common than eat.

Hi Pastel,

Generally, we take drug and eat food.

Why don't you drink soup? Eating soup sounds like a barbarian!

We have some soup. We usually don't say eat or drink soup.

You might say slurp soup if you want to be descriptive of a person making a lot of noise while having hot soup.

Eat soup gets 86,000 google hits...the popular choice.

(I'd risk a choking attack if I were to drink all those chunky styles.)

Thanks, Danyoo and rishonly.

A few versions of English do use 'take' to mean 'consume' including 'eat' and it occasionally has this sense in what we might call mainstream English too. After all, we take medicine - even the runny types - rather than drink medicine. Don't start using it in that sense unless it is right for your local version of English, but just be aware that it exists as it can cause some confusion.

Nona, you've just made my day warmer! Don't forget to wear warm clothing.

DavkettEat soup gets 86,000 google hits...the popular choice.

(I'd risk a choking attack if I were to drink all those chunky styles.)

Hi, Davlett,

What about beef broth?

Results of my google survey are as follows:

<some pills> drank 35/ had 902/ ate 530/ took 13,600 … TAKE
<some medicine> drank 89/ had 613/ ate 145/ took 11,000 … TAKE

<some water> drank 37,700/ had 30,900/ ate 109/ took 12,700 … DRINK/ HAVE
<some coffee> drank 13,100/ had 38,700/ ate 309/ took 218 … HAVE/ DRINK
<some beer> drank 23,80