Do you want to eat apple or drink beer?
Which one is correct? Which one is habitually used by native speakers?
The first one is what I want to know, apple or beer, regardless of quantity.
1. Do you want to eat apple or drink beer?
2. Do you want to eat an apple or drink a beer?
(It seems I am not generous.)
3. Do you want to eat apples or drink beers?
(What if I have only one of each.)
Thanks!
Re: Do you want to eat apple or drink beer?
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Originally Posted by Anonymous
Which one is correct? Which one is habitually used by native speakers?
The first one is what I want to know, apple or beer, regardless of quantity.
1. Do you want to eat apple or drink beer?
2. Do you want to eat an apple or drink a beer?
(It seems I am not generous.)
3. Do you want to eat apples or drink beers?
(What if I have only one of each.)
Thanks!
I prefer beer to apples, thanks. :roll:
Re: Do you want to eat apple or drink beer?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Which one is correct? Which one is habitually used by native speakers?
The first one is what I want to know, apple or beer, regardless of quantity.
1. Do you want to eat apple or drink beer?
2. Do you want to eat an apple or drink a beer?
(It seems I am not generous.)
3. Do you want to eat apples or drink beers?
(What if I have only one of each.)
Thanks!
Sentence 1. is ungrammatical. Try, Do you want to eat apples or drink beer? Sentence 2. sounds fine. You do not sound as if you're not being generous.
Example
Max: Let's stop and have a bite to eat.
Sam: I can't. I didn't bring any money with me.
Max: Well, let's see, I've an apple and a beer in my sack. Do you want to eat an apple or drink a beer?
Sentence 3 sounds odd. Do you want to eat apples sounds ok. It's the drink beers that seems odd. Drink beer is better, like this,
Do you want to drink beer? wherein 'beer' is viewed as a non-count noun.
More naturally, Do you feel like an apple or a beer?, which means, Do you want an apple/apples to eat or beer/beers to drink? Notice I placed the verbs at the end of the noun phrases. :wink:
All the best,