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Doll Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

peel the skin of the apple

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00I know that an apple and a banana have a skin while an eg has a shell and a lemon or orange has a peel. I want to have my apple without its skin. How can I express myself? Can I say I want to peel the skin of my apple or crash the shell of my nut? What about orange? Can I say I want to peel the peel of my orange? 02br
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00Thanks in advance 050010id1
  

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0peel an apple, crash/crack a nut 0-

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0Thank you MH! Can I peel an orange too?0-
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00Yes, and to cover your examples more completely:02br
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00We 01i00peel 02i00an orange / a lemon / an apple / a banana / a grapefruit02br
00We 01i00crack / shell02i00 nuts. (not 01i00crash02i00, in my experience) 0-
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0 Hi Doll02br
00You 01i00peel an apple/a banana/an orange.02i02br
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00You 01i00crack (or shell) a nut02i00. ('crash' is not used!) 0-
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0>You 01i00crack (or shell) a nut02i00. ('crash' is not used!) 02br
00You can use "crash" if you mean "smash" but not "crack." This is probably not the intent here. 0-
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0I don't think crash works in any context.0-
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0Crushed nuts are often added optionally to ice cream sundaes - at least they were in my day. (I usually declined.)0-
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0Yes, that's true, but that's the inside of the nut, not the shell.02br
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00Also, crash is not the same as crush.0-
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