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Kumenglish Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Food

Birds ate all food that I kept upstair yesterday. There is nothing left.

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How can we say "bird food" instead of just "food"?

  

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kumenglish (The) birds ate all the food that I kept upstair s yesterday. There is nothing left. This is a minimum correction, but there remains a slight awkwardness about what "yesterday" modifies.

  • kumenglish (The) birds ate all the food that I kept upstair s yesterday.
  • There is nothing left.
  • This is a minimum correction, but there remains a slight awkwardness about what "yesterday" modifies.
  • The presence or absence of the initial article depends on context in quite a complex way.
  • kumenglish How can we say "bird food" instead of just "food"?
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kumenglish(The) birds ate all the food that I kept upstairs yesterday. There is nothing left.

This is a minimum correction, but there remains a slight awkwardness about what "yesterday" modifies. The presence or absence of the ini

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