
sentence construction - Uses of "have you had" and "did you have ...
2015年6月9日 · Have you had your lunch? My mind reads it as: Have you already eaten/consumed your lunch? While the second sentence. Did you have your lunch? Means the same thing, but the tense is slightly different. I read it as: Did you already eat your lunch? For your second set of questions, neither feel very good: Have you had this situation when you were ...
word usage - Using the verb 'have' instead of the verb 'eat'
2015年2月9日 · I'm starving – let's have! Here's one more odd case: I'm hungry; let's have at that hamburger place. I'm hungry; let's eat at that hamburger place. In this case, we can't use have to mean eat, because we're not using the word transitively. We can fix that by saying: I'm hungry; let's have hamburgers at that place.
prepositions - (at/in/on) (-/a/the) restaurant - English Language ...
"We will have dinner (at/in/on) (-/a/the) restaurant" I believe that if I mention restaurant for the first time, then I always must use "I am at a restaurant". So I can't say "I will have a dinner at,in,on the restaurant". I am so confused about which option is more common, correct and natural to say.
prepositions - "at lunch break" vs "in lunch break" - English …
2021年1月7日 · Yes, a lunch break can be from 12-13. But that will still not work because the phrase "lunch break" does not have a well accepted definition of when it starts or end - it's arbitary. Whereas, things like "afternoon" or "the fifth period" has well defined limits intrinsically. –
tense - In the morning, I ask somebody "what will you have for …
2019年10月31日 · What do you have for lunch? …means that he usually eats the same thing for lunch each day, and you are asking what it is. Or, if your friend brought his lunch with him and hasn't eaten it yet, this question asks what he brought.
When to use "the lunch" (with the definite article "the")?
I have lunch in three hours. Shall we go out for lunch? Let's have some lunch. I'll take my lunch to school. But now I wonder if this word really cannot take the definite article, and if it can, in what cases do I use the definite article and in what cases not? And also, if the word lunch cannot take the definite article, why cannot it have it?
word choice - Use of "to lunch" vs."for lunch" - English Language ...
2016年9月29日 · the phrase to lunch is being used as an infinitive, while in this sentence: I went to the mall to meet my parents for lunch. the word lunch is being used as a noun. Though both are grammatical, most of the time, I would recommend using for, not to. Using lunch as verb often sounds rather stilted, particularly at the end of a sentence like in ...
Which preposition should I choose for "lunch"?
We drank the milk during lunch. We drank the milk with lunch. We drank the milk for lunch. That third sentence (with for) implies that milk was the meal itself, not just the beverage served with lunch. Normally, this would be an unusual sentence, unless perhaps the speaker was participating in some diet plan where a glass of milk was supposed ...
present perfect - Which one of the following is correct? - English ...
I am cooking lunch. #2 is an acceptable and informal way of expressing you will be making lunch. Who's cooking lunch today? I will be cooking lunch. may be better. I have been cooking lunch. implies you have already started cooking lunch and may or may not continue to be cooking lunch now. What have you been doing? I have been cooking lunch for ...
"He'll have lunch." what exactly does this sentence mean?
2015年11月10日 · At 12:45 he'll have lunch. This says that at 12:45, the subject will stop what he was doing and start to have his lunch. At 12:45 he'll be having lunch. This says that at 12:45 the subject will be engaged in having lunch, he may have …