You should eat or you should be eating?
Which of the following sentences is correct?
1) The food you should be eating every day for a longer life.
2) The food you should eat every day for a longer life.
Thank you.
Top answer
Preliminary point: your examples are not sentences but noun phrases. They both have the form of recommendations. In many situations, there's unlikely to be much semantic difference between the two, though [1] may imply that you are currently not eating the right food for a longer life.
- Preliminary point: your examples are not sentences but noun phrases.
- They both have the form of recommendations.
- In many situations, there's unlikely to be much semantic difference between the two, though [1] may imply that you are currently not eating the right food for a longer life.
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Preliminary point: your examples are not sentences but noun phrases.
They both have the form of recommendations.
In many situations, there's unlikely to be much semantic difference between the two, though [1] may imply that you are currently not eating the right food for a longer life.
0teal limeWhich of the following sentences is correct?
You need to change them to make them sentences.
1) This is the food you should be eating every day for a longer life.
2) This is the food you should eat every day for a longer life.
Now they are both correct. To my ear the meaning is virtually identical. It
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