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What is the correct?
wakebeauty
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What is the correct?
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Please dear colleagues help me with this doubt, what is the correct:
PICNIC FRUIT or FRUIT PICNIC and why????
Thanks a lot in advance, wakebeauty. |
31 Aug 2010
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nat1000
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Picnic fruit would be fruit you take on a regular picnic, strawberries for example. While fruit picnic would suggest a picnic of fruit only.
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31 Aug 2010
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wakebeauty
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OMG, I used with my SS the other way out Nat!!!! And now?????
Thanks a bunch Nat for clarifying it to me... |
31 Aug 2010
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lshorton99
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I agree with nat but I would add that I �ve never said either. It �s not very natural to say �picnic fruit � as which fruits are �picnic fruits � would vary from person to person and I �ve never had a �fruit picnic � - a picnic with only fruit would probably just be a snack on a day in the country. I would consider both expressions to be something not said by native speakers.
Lindsey
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31 Aug 2010
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anitarobi
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Yup, Nat is perfectly right. Wakebeauty, don �t worry. This happens. You can either tell your sts you had a terrible headache that day and mixed things up, or use it for a challenge - repeat the two forms and ask them what they think was wrong about them during the last lesson - don �t forget to reward the student who guesses! |
31 Aug 2010
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