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CharmYou Posted 12 years ago
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Is it ok to say the peach hasn't been washed?

Is it ok to say the peach hasn't been washed? I just handed several peaches to one of my foreign English teachers from America. And I told her the peach hasn't been washed so she better not eat it until she had it washed. But I figure the expression "It hasn't been washed" is kind of weird to her? She repeated my sentence and gave me a weird smile. Can anyone tell me if it is ok to say "It hasn't been washed"?
  

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Sounds fine to me. Maybe she says "rinsed" or "cleaned"?

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  • Sounds fine to me.
  • Maybe she says "rinsed" or "cleaned"?
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Sounds fine to me. Maybe she says "rinsed" or "cleaned"?
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CharmYouBut I figure the expression "It hasn't been washed" is kind of weird to her?
It may have been something cultural rather than grammatical that puzzled her. "Not washed" implies "not clean", "dirty". In the U.S. I don't think we would say anything to draw attention to the fact that what we were giving was dirty. Either we would rinse the peaches befor
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