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Kumenglish Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Put

Context: ask someone to eat the pizza fully and leave the residue of it.

Please finish the pizza fully.

Please put/keep half of the pizza for me.

Please leave the pizza a little bit.

Please check them, especially those verbs.

Is "put" suitable here?

  

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kumenglish Context: ask someone to eat the pizza fully and leave the residue of it. It is not possible to eat something fully and also have something that remains of it (residue), so this is contradictory. Maybe you meant "or" instead of "and"?

  • kumenglish Context: ask someone to eat the pizza fully and leave the residue of it.
  • It is not possible to eat something fully and also have something that remains of it (residue), so this is contradictory.
  • Maybe you meant "or" instead of "and"?
  • That would be written like the following: The context is to encourage someone to eat the whole pizza or to ask them to save some for you.
  • ) kumenglish Please finish the pizza fully .
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kumenglishContext: ask someone to eat the pizza fully and leave the residue of it.

It is not possible to eat something fully and also have something that remains of it (residue), so this is contradictory. Maybe you meant "or" instead of "and"? That would be written like the following:

The context is to encourage someone to eat the whole pizza

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