Ate is the preterite conjugation of eat and is used when conjugating without the verbs "do" or "have" (therefore, you do not use "ate" when asking a question, only when stating a fact). Examples: "I ate that." "We ate your food, Blake."

2023年2月18日 · A better sentence would be "I had this really good lasange on Tuesday." But obviously that doesn't mean the same as "I ate food". The point is to say something interesting, not to say the same boring thing in a different way. I prefer "I ate food" to "I ate three meals a day" since both are just as boring, but at least "I ate food" is shorter.

2019年11月9日 · Mark ate all the chocolate when I got home. There was nothing left. This says that Mark waited for you to get home before he then proceeded to eat ALL of the chocolate. The act of eating the chocolate happened AFTER or at the moment you got home.

2013年4月9日 · This would imply that you went to the restaurant, were served food, and ate it. If you ate your own food (or food from another restaurant), you would have to explain that. If you were to say: eat in a restaurant. That would mean you ate food while inside the building.

2015年6月3日 · How can I correctly say that I have eaten all my food (the food is gone)? How can I correctly ask someone if he has eaten all his food? Imagine the situation when your child is eating: Does the following dialogue sound fine? Have you eaten your food? (I want to know if my son has finished eating and has eaten all his food) Yes, I have eaten my ...

2019年4月8日 · Did you finish your food? I might ask the patient: Did you eat any food? I might ask the athelete: Did you eat your meal? I might ask the dizzy person: Have you had any food recently? and I might ask the friend on the bad date: Did you eat your food? Or did you just get up and leave? One thing I would not ask, though, is: Did you take your food?

So in number (1) we do not need to use the past perfect at all. We could just use the past simple: I ate a pound of chocolate before I ate my dinner. In the second sentence, where it would be unclear which happened first, the chocolate or the dinner, the past perfect is appropriate-assuming that the chocolate eating happened before the dinner did.

2016年1月2日 · By saying "I have eaten lunch", you indicate that you already ate lunch during today's time interval for eating lunch. (You would probably say "I ate lunch" if someone asks you at 3:30 p.m., long after the usual time interval for eating lunch.)

2018年1月12日 · Case 1: In this case the food is taken from a particular location, so: He eats from the plate. Case 2: There are two options. Either you can describe the location of the food, or, again, from where the food is taken: He only eats food (served) on a plate. He only eats from a plate. The second sentence is not unusual in context: My cat is ...

2015年2月9日 · When talking about a particular food or meal, eat and have can function interchangeably most of the time. Of the two, have is the more versatile and generic word: Let's start with your last example: I'm eating pizza now. Let me call you back – I don't want my pizza getting cold. I'm having pizza now.