[Grammar] Can one say " I love travel"?

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Hi All,

As part of an error correction exercise in one of my classes recently, a student gave me this sentence " I love travel" and asked me to correct it.
Is this sentence wrong; ( I know one normally says 'I love traveling' or 'I love to travel'), but can't one use travel in the general sense - like one says " I love food'?
Please could someone clarify.

Thanks in advance.

Arun

 

[Chicken Sandwich]

NOT A TEACHER

It doesn't sound natural to me. More natural is, as you've said:

I love to travel.
I love travelling.

 

[Raymott]

Hi All,

As part of an error correction exercise in one of my classes recently, a student gave me this sentence " I love travel" and asked me to correct it.
Is this sentence wrong; ( I know one normally says 'I love traveling' or 'I love to travel'), but can't one use travel in the general sense - like one says " I love food'?
Please could someone clarify.

Thanks in advance.

Arun

So your students give you sentences to correct and that's an error correction exercise? I would have thought it would happen the other way.
Anyway, "I love travel" is fine. The other variants would be more common.

 

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Thank you Raymott

Actually it was a peer correction exercise, but since no one knew the answer, they gave it to me.

Thanks again for the clarification.

Arun