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Hans51 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

The first time doing / to do

This is my first time eating the food.

Can I just use the sentence when the situation is ongoing? Or can we see it as two like

1) my first time (that is) eating...
2) my first time (that) eats...

What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance!
  

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Unfortunately, none of your phrases are really possible, but I think I get your point. The sentence describes the experience, but the speaker needn't actually be eating at the moment. 'This' points to a near event.

— Mister Micawber

  • Unfortunately, none of your phrases are really possible, but I think I get your point.
  • The sentence describes the experience, but the speaker needn't actually be eating at the moment.
  • 'This' points to a near event.
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Unfortunately, none of your phrases are really possible, but I think I get your point. The sentence describes the experience, but the speaker needn't actually be eating at the moment. 'This' points to a near event.
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Thank you so much so "This is my first time eating the food." is okay to use but I do not think of any omission like 'that' and 'that is', right? And then I was wondering when the time doing is... and the time to do is...are used and is there a meaning difference between them?
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No, no real difference, but the infinitive is the usual, I think.
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