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Sundarnaz Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Have vs eat

I thought 'have' was over taking 'eat' in contemporary everyday spoken English but the Google says, "It's the other way round."

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=I+have+my+lunch%2CI+eat+my+lunch&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CI%20have%20my%20lunch%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CI%20eat%20my%20lunch%3B%2Cc0

What do you say?

Thanks in advance.

  

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That's because you inserted 'my', which is not quite as native. t1%3B%2Ceat%20lunch%3B%2Cc0

— Mister Micawber

  • That's because you inserted 'my', which is not quite as native.
  • t1%3B%2Ceat%20lunch%3B%2Cc0
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That's because you inserted 'my', which is not quite as native. Have a look at 'have lunch' vs 'eat lunch':

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph

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