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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

which one is right

Hi,

Please help.

I had a steak and a salad.

I had steak and salad
  

Top answer

I had a steak and a salad - they sound like two separate dishes. I had steak and salad - they were served together.

— Nona the brit

  • I had a steak and a salad - they sound like two separate dishes.
  • I had steak and salad - they were served together.
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I had a steak and a salad - they sound like two separate dishes.

I had steak and salad - they were served together.
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Nona The BritI had a steak and a salad - they sound like two separate dishes.

I had steak and salad - they were served together.
Nona's differentiation doesn't really work for me, but I can't find any fault in it. I think both sentences give the same information, with very little indication of the order in which the items w
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Correctness depends on whether you're thinking of them as two individualized elements - two items, each with its own boundary - a steak and a salad - or as two amorphous substances - steak and salad. As Nona points out, when we are not thinking of them as two items, we can think of the two together as one item composed of two substances.

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