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Mr. Tom Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

This is a very easy receipe. The dish makes in minutes.

Hi

Is this sentence natural, especially the yellow part?

This is a very easy receipe. The dish makes in minutes.

Thanks,

Tom
  

Top answer

NO it's not natural. If you are referring to the time it takes to prepare the dish then it's This is a very easy receipe. The dish takes minutes to make OR The dish can be made in minutes.

— Mr Alan

  • NO it's not natural.
  • If you are referring to the time it takes to prepare the dish then it's This is a very easy receipe.
  • The dish takes minutes to make OR The dish can be made in minutes.
  • Hope it answers it for you Mr Alan
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NO it's not natural.

If you are referring to the time it takes to prepare the dish then it's

This is a very easy receipe. The dish takes minutes to make

OR

The dish can be made in minutes.

Hope it answers it for you

Mr Alan
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Many thanks! I still can't see who verified the post, but I can guess it.

Could you please listen to it only for 45 seconds? The said sentence is spoken by a VERY FAMOUS English writer?

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Well, you're right. In the clip, Madhur Jaffrey does say "It makes in seconds"! It still sounds odd to me (I'm the one who verified the previous answer) -- you can say something "cooks in minutes" or "bakes in minutes," but I wouldn't say it "makes in minutes." Obviously, though, she would! I don't know if it's just her own idiosyncratic way of speaking, or if it's a common usage in Indian E
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Hi Tom

That is an interesting example. My intial thought was the same as khoff's -- i.e. that using 'make' that way might be something common to Indian English.

By the way, I would like to unconfirm the way you spelled recipe.
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