kadioguy
Key Member
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2017
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- Taiwan
- Current Location
- Taiwan
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After going to One Piece exhibition, my nephew, niece, and I went to Pizza Hut for its buffet. The time limit is 90 minutes. After an hour of eating, my nephew said he could still eat, but he didn’t want to stuff himself. I told him not to eat anymore.
On my way home, I was thinking why in Taiwan quite a lot of people think if you don’t stuff yourself in an all-you-can-eat restaurant, you waste your money. I remember my mom used to say she wastes her money every time she went to a buffet restaurant because she could only eat a little bit. I really don’t know why people in Taiwan have this kind of concept about buffet restaurants.
(Quoted from https://tinyurl.com/y53b5oy8)
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1.
a. The time limit is 90 minutes.
b. The time limit was 90 minutes.
In this context, are both acceptable? I think the answer is "yes", because (a) means it is still true now, whereas (b) means it happened in the past. Am I right in thinking this?
2.
If so, which tense sounds more natural to native speakers? Or is it just a choice of writing style?
3. I think the red "wastes" should be "wasted". What do you think?
After going to One Piece exhibition, my nephew, niece, and I went to Pizza Hut for its buffet. The time limit is 90 minutes. After an hour of eating, my nephew said he could still eat, but he didn’t want to stuff himself. I told him not to eat anymore.
On my way home, I was thinking why in Taiwan quite a lot of people think if you don’t stuff yourself in an all-you-can-eat restaurant, you waste your money. I remember my mom used to say she wastes her money every time she went to a buffet restaurant because she could only eat a little bit. I really don’t know why people in Taiwan have this kind of concept about buffet restaurants.
(Quoted from https://tinyurl.com/y53b5oy8)
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1.
a. The time limit is 90 minutes.
b. The time limit was 90 minutes.
In this context, are both acceptable? I think the answer is "yes", because (a) means it is still true now, whereas (b) means it happened in the past. Am I right in thinking this?
2.
If so, which tense sounds more natural to native speakers? Or is it just a choice of writing style?
3. I think the red "wastes" should be "wasted". What do you think?