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Reegis Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Let's have something to eat / Let's go and eat something / Let's eat something
Hello, good people on this forum.
I would like to ask about the following three basic sentences:
1) Let's have something to eat.
2) Let's go and eat something.
3) Let's eat something.
Do they mean the same or not exactly?
I guess that the first sentence might carry the information that we are going to buy or otherwise get ('have') our food and then eat it. The second one I am not sure about, and the third one means that we can just take out our food and start eating it right away.
I would like to ask about the following three basic sentences:
1) Let's have something to eat.
2) Let's go and eat something.
3) Let's eat something.
Do they mean the same or not exactly?
I guess that the first sentence might carry the information that we are going to buy or otherwise get ('have') our food and then eat it. The second one I am not sure about, and the third one means that we can just take out our food and start eating it right away.
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Only context can tell us what meaning is intended by these sentences. Only the second explicitly suggests leaving where the speaker is at present.
- Only context can tell us what meaning is intended by these sentences.
- Only the second explicitly suggests leaving where the speaker is at present.
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Only context can tell us what meaning is intended by these sentences. Only the second explicitly suggests leaving where the speaker is at present.
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Could you please propose briefly one context for each sentence that would allow me grasp the possible difference between them?
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