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lemarja3
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Please, help!
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Is it correct to say: My favourite food is pasta and spaghetti.
Thanks in advance.
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13 Mar 2011
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libertybelle
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Past and spaghetti are the same thing.
Do you mean Spaghetti Bolognese? (meat and tomato sauce)
We usually say - My favorite dish is meatloaf or spaghetti Bolognese.
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13 Mar 2011
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Lifesabeach48
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There are many kinds of pasta. Pasta are noodles that can be shaped differently, made from different flours, combined with an almost endless variety of sauces, vegetables, meats, and spices. Spaghetti is one type of pasta. It can commonly be referring to long, narrow noodles with a Marinara sauce or �red sauce � that is tomato based, sometimes with meatballs. As for the grammar structure, since you mention 2 things, I would say your sentence like this: "My favorite foods are pasta and spaghetti." This would be using the correct plural of �foods � that then requires you to change the verb from �is � to �are �. I hope that makes sense. :) |
13 Mar 2011
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libertybelle
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Pasta is pasta - just in different shapes and forms.
Noodles, spaghetti and all the rest are made from pretty much the same ingredients.
wikipedia says:
Pasta is a generic term for foods made from an unleavened
dough of wheat or buckwheat flour and water, sometimes with other
ingredients such as eggs.
Spaghetti is pasta - therefore it �s redundant to write that pasta and spaghetti are favorite foods.
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13 Mar 2011
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alexcure
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But, Lifesabeach48 - the definition of pasta is" dough
extruded or stamped into various shapes (e.g. spaghetti, lasagne) for
cooking in boiling water and eating, typically with a savoury sauce." In this context I think your sentence has no logical sense. What do you think of:
My favourite food is pasta, especially spaghetti.
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13 Mar 2011
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Lifesabeach48
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I think, technically speaking, one could like pastas of many sorts AND spaghetti as their favorite foods. Likely it would be a sentence that could be used in an informal setting, in which case they would want to use correct grammar. Semantically, it would be more advanced to say it as you have done, referring to it as �especially �, or �particularly � spaghetti, thus keeping it as part of a group of pastas. Does that make sense, alexcure? |
14 Mar 2011
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leelei
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In my country we say in Danish, Grekken foiten hab, which means I like pizza. |
14 Mar 2011
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robirimini
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I totally agree with libertybelle and alexcure.
Italians (pasta inventors) never say "My favourite food is pasta and spaghetti" or "My favorite foods are pasta and spaghetti".
"My favourite food is pasta, especially spaghetti." is ok.
Or "I like pasta and spaghetti is my favourite."
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14 Mar 2011
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