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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
What food or what kind of food?
Hi. Please help me with this.
Are these asking the same thing?
1. What kind of food do you like most?
2. What food do you like most?
If they are, how should we answer them? Any of these (below) correct?
Could we answer number 2 as "spicy food"? Or could we answer number 2 as "noodles" or "spaghetti"? Or perhaps could we answer it as "XXX spaghetti" (with the "XXX" representing a name brand)?
Are these asking the same thing?
1. What kind of food do you like most?
2. What food do you like most?
If they are, how should we answer them? Any of these (below) correct?
Could we answer number 2 as "spicy food"? Or could we answer number 2 as "noodles" or "spaghetti"? Or perhaps could we answer it as "XXX spaghetti" (with the "XXX" representing a name brand)?
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I think the latter part of your question indicates that you are sensing the answer. 1. What kind of food do you like most?
- I think the latter part of your question indicates that you are sensing the answer.
- 1.
- What kind of food do you like most?
- , not one particular food that you like the most.
- 2.
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I think the latter part of your question indicates that you are sensing the answer.
1. What kind of food do you like most?
This is asking for a class of food--Italian food, spicy food, seafood, etc., not one particular food that you like the most.
2. What food do you like most?
This is asking for the one particular food you like best, such as, ice
1. What kind of food do you like most?
This is asking for a class of food--Italian food, spicy food, seafood, etc., not one particular food that you like the most.
2. What food do you like most?
This is asking for the one particular food you like best, such as, ice
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Hi. Thank you. Please help me with this, too.
Let us pretend that we have asked a student come up to the front of the classroom and have had him stand in front of his class. He has laid out some food on the table. Which is correct?
1. Hi, as you all can see, we have three foods on the table: apples, strawberries and a watermelon.
2. Hi, as you all can s
Let us pretend that we have asked a student come up to the front of the classroom and have had him stand in front of his class. He has laid out some food on the table. Which is correct?
1. Hi, as you all can see, we have three foods on the table: apples, strawberries and a watermelon.
2. Hi, as you all can s
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You would probably use three foods, because you actually have only two types or categories of food--two fruits and a melon, so the 2 types of food displayed are fruits and melons.
If you had bread, an apple, and a melon, you might say, "three types of food."
That having been said, in common usage, people would say, "three kinds of food" for your original group of foods.
If you had bread, an apple, and a melon, you might say, "three types of food."
That having been said, in common usage, people would say, "three kinds of food" for your original group of foods.
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