fast food every day

[navi tasan]

Are these sentences correct?

1) You cannot be healthy on fast food every day.
2) Fast food every day is bad for your health.

I think it is correct. What I find interesting is that the adverbial 'every day' is not modifying the verb, but actually the noun 'fast food'. 'Fast food every day' forms a single unit.

 

[jutfrank]

They're not very well expressed. You're expecting your reader to understand that you're talking about eating. Why haven't you included the verb?

 

[Tarheel]

Well, the "eating" is implied, isn't it? After all, what do you do with food?

 

[jutfrank]

Well, the "eating" is implied, isn't it? After all, what do you do with food?

Yes, exactly.

 

[Rover_KE]

Well, the "eating" is implied, isn't it? After all, what do you do with food?

Before you eat it, you can sell it or buy it.

 

[Tarheel]

The sentences in the OP imply only eating. It's true that you have to buy it first, but it would be silly to do that if you weren't going to eat it.

 

[emsr2d2]

I find sentence 2 absolutely fine. It doesn't need a verb to indicate eating. However, I find the wording of sentence 1 unnatural. It does need something before/instead of "on".

You can't be healthy [if you're] living on fast food every day.
You can't be healthy [if you're] eating/scoffing/noshing fast food every day.

I'm not clear on one thing - does the "you" refer to a single person (the person you're addressing) or are you using it as a generic "you", meaning "people"?

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you all very much,

I had the generic 'you' in mind, but I guess it could be either.