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Vincent Teo Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Ingredients of the cakes

Can I say,

We helped mother to prepare the ingredients of / for the cakes.
  

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The ingredients for a cake include flour, sugar, eggs, etc. You didn't "prepare the ingredients" unless you ground the flour, processed the sugar, or collected the eggs. If she needed nuts chopped, and you chopped the nuts, you have helped prepare the ingredients, but I don't think this what you meant.

— BarbaraPA

  • The ingredients for a cake include flour, sugar, eggs, etc.
  • You didn't "prepare the ingredients" unless you ground the flour, processed the sugar, or collected the eggs.
  • If she needed nuts chopped, and you chopped the nuts, you have helped prepare the ingredients, but I don't think this what you meant.
  • We helped Mother make the cakes.
  • We helped Mother get the ingredients she needed to make the cakes.
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The ingredients for a cake include flour, sugar, eggs, etc.
You didn't "prepare the ingredients" unless you ground the flour, processed the sugar, or collected the eggs. If she needed nuts chopped, and you chopped the nuts, you have helped prepare the ingredients, but I don't think this what you meant.

We helped Mother make the cakes.
We helped Mother get the ingredients she nee
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