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is it okay to say:
"Additional salt might spoil your meal."? (for example in a recipe)
are additional things also useless or harmful in some cases? or we use some other word instead of "additional"?
Thank you engee30. "too much salt" will do and I use it too. Perhaps that was not a good example. My question is chiefly about "additional" itself, and not that particular sentence.
Another example:
My friend and I are going to the mountains tomorrow. But I have no boots. I ask him:"Do you have any additional boots?".
I mean another pair of boots which he does not need himself.
I want to know if additional has any meaning other than "extra" or ... .
Last edited by Khosro; 01-Feb-2011 at 17:42.
Thank you. I checked "spare" in the dictionary and that's suitable for my purpose. I guess with "too much" and "spare" I can easily say sentences with an implicit concept of "additional" within them.
"Spare" has 2-3 different meanings as an adjective which are all useful.
No need for more explaination; It is obvious to me. I just needed the word "spare". But you can explain it here in the thread if you like.
I wouldn't use additional in a recipe- additional would be adding salt at the table or outside the cooking for me.
Any idea for my previous post? Thank you.
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