[Vocabulary] What is your favorite dish?

anupumh · Jan 29, 2010

Hi,

Do native speakers (Briton or American) use this statement?

What is your favorite dis?

Is the usage of dish in this sentence appropriate?

Thanks

Barb_D · Jan 29, 2010

Yes, (though you have "dis" instead of "dish"), it's a common thing to say.

anupumh · Jan 29, 2010

Barb_D said:
Yes, (though you have "dis" instead of "dish"), it's a common thing to say.

yes i that was a typo, i missed the "h"

Barb_D · Jan 29, 2010

I was 99% sure that it was just a typo, but sometimes people ask weird things and we assume (incorrectly) we know what they meant.

mmasny · Jan 30, 2010

anupumh said:
Hi,

Do native speakers (Briton or American) use this statement?

What is your favorite dis?

Is the usage of dish in this sentence appropriate?

Thanks

By the way, this is not a statement. It's a question. A statement says something (true or not) about the world. You can't refer to the sentence "What is your favourite dish?" as true or false.
Not a teacher nor a native speaker.

anupumh · Feb 1, 2010

mmasny said:
By the way, this is not a statement. It's a question. A statement says something (true or not) about the world. You can't refer to the sentence "What is your favourite dish?" as true or false.
Not a teacher nor a native speaker.

Well I doubt that sentence and statement mean the same. I think a sentence can be a question or even a statement.

Kondorosi · Feb 1, 2010

mmasny said:
By the way, this is not a statement. It's a question. A statement says something (true or not) about the world. You can't refer to the sentence "What is your favourite dish?" as true or false.
Not a teacher nor a native speaker.

The OP wrote sentence, not statement. ;-)

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