"it/milk" boils

[subhajit123]

Hi there, can I replace it with milk in the following sentence? I don't want to use the before milk because I want to talk about milk in general.

Here's the sentence:

• If you heat milk to 212.3 degrees fahrenheit, it/(the) milk boils.

 

[jutfrank]

Yes. You could say:

If you heat milk to 212.3 degrees Fahrenheit, it boils.
If you heat it to 212.3 degrees Fahrenheit, milk boils.

(The first sentence is more natural.)

 

[Raymott]

I like "... it will boil."

 

[Tara2]

Hi Piscean
Can we use 'will' fr present?

 

[subhajit123]

Hi everyone, one more question regarding this. Can I interchange "the book" and "it" in the following sentence?

1- If you buy a book, it/the book will be you guide and a friend forever.

 

[Rover_KE]

If I believed that, I would only say 'If you buy a book, it will be your guide and a friend forever',

 

[subhajit123]

If I believed that, I would only say 'If you buy a book, it will be your guide and a friend forever',

I would also use it Because it's natural and easy. But can I use The book there too?

 

[Rover_KE]

Only if you want to repeat the noun instead of using the more convenient pronoun.

You don't yet seem to have grasped that it's poor writing style to repeat the same word in the same sentence, or even in adjacent sentences.

 

[Skrej]

We generally use the antecedent as little as possible, unless it's necessary to repeat for clarification. In your example, there's no confusion about what the pronoun refers to.

 

[Tdol]

I would also use it Because it's natural and easy.

If something is natural, use it. Making something less natural is rarely a way of improving things in most contexts.