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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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It's a problem about usage of an indefinite article.
Could anyone tell me difference between "eat lunch" and "eat a lunch"?
Could anyone tell me difference between "eat lunch" and "eat a lunch"?
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'Eat lunch' is the normal, natural phrase: I always eat lunch at noon. We ate lunch in Busan before we left . 'Eat a lunch' I suppose has some limited use, as it is not ungrammatical, but I can think of no convincing sentence for it.
- 'Eat lunch' is the normal, natural phrase: I always eat lunch at noon.
- We ate lunch in Busan before we left .
- 'Eat a lunch' I suppose has some limited use, as it is not ungrammatical, but I can think of no convincing sentence for it.
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'Eat lunch' is the normal, natural phrase: I always eat lunch at noon. We ate lunch in Busan before we left.
'Eat a lunch' I suppose has some limited use, as it is not ungrammatical, but I can think of no convincing sentence for it.
'Eat a lunch' I suppose has some limited use, as it is not ungrammatical, but I can think of no convincing sentence for it.
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Anonymousdifference between "eat lunch" and "eat a lunch""to eat lunch" means to have the usual midday meal.
"to eat a lunch" is hard to contextualize. I don't think that "a lunch" is used with "to eat", though it may be possible with other verbs. Here's an example I thought of:
My wife prepared a lunch for me to take to work.
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