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HSS Posted 19 years ago
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What would you choose to fill in the brackets?
A: What's she making for your dinner?
B: Broiled fish.
A: Fish is good for you.
B: I don't mind having ( ) once in a while.
A: Neither do I ... as long as there's meat and potatoes to go with it.
1) it 2) some 3) one 4) ones 5) them 6) (other)
Thanks in advance.
Hiro
A: What's she making for your dinner?
B: Broiled fish.
A: Fish is good for you.
B: I don't mind having ( ) once in a while.
A: Neither do I ... as long as there's meat and potatoes to go with it.
1) it 2) some 3) one 4) ones 5) them 6) (other)
Thanks in advance.
Hiro
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Feebs11What would be your choice?Hint: the correct choice is not6)
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HSSA: Fish is good for you.That choice of verb points to singular or uncountable use limiting you to A, B or C. "Broiled fish" or just "fish" is uncountable which excludes C. That leaves A or B.
B: I don't mind having ( ) once in a while.
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Feebs11What would be your choice?
I was going to say "it" or "some," but then CJ wrote just that.
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this "fish" here refers to the meat of the fish, not the whole fish, and so it should be uncountableYes.
some isn't really unspecific about types of food. It's unspecific about the amount.
When you use "it", you mean "that kind of food (that is, fish)". When you use "some", you mean "a certain (indefinite) amount of (fish)
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