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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

The verb 'have'[eat] modifying a present participle

I have formerly posted with this sentence "I had lunch reading a book" and I heard sentence like that isn't used

and I thought the reason is that the word 'have' so many meaning, so I added the context clarifying the meaning of the word 'have' to my example.


How about this sentence ? :

As I have a habit of eating something reading anything, I had lunch reading a book.


In advance, thank you for your help.
  

Top answer

park sang joon I had lunch reading a book. I don't think it would be wrong to use this sentence. I take this to mean I had lunch while I was reading a book .

— Laborious

  • park sang joon I had lunch reading a book.
  • I don't think it would be wrong to use this sentence.
  • I take this to mean I had lunch while I was reading a book .
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park sang joonI had lunch reading a book.
I don't think it would be wrong to use this sentence. I take this to mean I had lunch while I was reading a book.
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Hi Laborious^^

I don' know the reason, but this sentence 'I had lunch reading a book' seems to be a little awkward whereas this sentence 'I ate lunch reading a book' seems to be natural to native speaker.
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park sang joonI don' know the reason, but this sentence 'I had lunch reading a book' seems to be a little awkward whereas this sentence 'I ate lunch reading a book' seems to be natural to native speaker.
OK. But don't we use 'have' in the sense of 'to eat' or 'to drink' something? For example, What did you have (eat) for the breakfast this mor
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They just say they have a different feeling between 'have puls -ing' and 'eat plus -ing' for some reason, so I don't know the reason.
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