What’s the difference between these two sentences?

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1 Chinese food l ate was delicious.2 The Chinese food l ate was delicious.

Rover_KE · Accepted Answer

Only the second is grammatical.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Chiakingdom Chinese food l ate was delicious.

Rewritten to be grammatical: Chinese food is delicious.

CalifJim · Answer

Chiakingdom
1 [ ??? ] Chinese food l [ I ate ] was delicious.
2 [The] Chinese food l [ I ate ] was delicious.

The first is wrong; the second is correct.

The bracketed parts go together. Use "the" if you have a modifying clause after the uncountable noun.

Furniture was expensive in those days.
The furniture we bought was expensive.

We need money to buy clothes.
We need the money we saved to buy clothes.

CJ

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