【No. 0076】Foie Gras
Corrections (3)
- Foie Gras
- This sentence is perfect! No correction needed!
- Today, I went to a ramen shop with my juniors.
- This sentence is perfect! No correction needed!
- Surprisingly, foie gras bowl was sold at the ramen shop.
- This sentence is perfect! No correction needed!
- The shop offers only 5 little foie gras bowls per day, and 4 bowls were already sold at that time.
- The shop offers only 5 little foie gras bowls per day, and 4 bowls were already sold at that time.
- The name of the menu was "foie gras bowl," but in fact, there were only one small slice of foie gras and some slices of beef on a rice bowl.
- The name of the menu was "foie gras bowl," but in fact, there wereas only one small slice of foie gras and some slices of beef on a rice bowl.
- The foie gras is maybe very delicious, but it's difficult for me to describe the taste.
- The foie gras wais maybe very delicious, but it's difficult for me to describe the taste.
- I thought cheap meats are more suit me than expensive meats because I want to eat a lot of meat.
- I thoughtink cheap meats are more suit me more than expensive meats because I want to eat a lot of meat.
Just a couple of wrong tenses, but that was still great!
- The name of the menu was "foie gras bowl," but in fact, there wereas only one small slice of foie gras and some slices of beef on a rice bowl.
I have one question.
I used the word "only," but I wanted to mean like "one slice of foie gras and some slices of beef were on a rice bowl." I thought "one ... and some ..." are multiple objects, but should I use the word "was" instead of "were"?
You should is "was" if the first thing listed is singular and use "were" if the first thing was plural.
*There was one slice of foie gras and some slices of beef.
*There were some slices of beef and one slice of foie gras.
Thank you so much for your informative answer!
I learned new things. :D
- Surprisingly, foie gras bowl was sold at the ramen shop.
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Surprisingly, a foie gras bowl was sold at the ramen shop.
This "a" is a little hard to explain, and like many native speakers I don't have a good way to explicitly explain my intuition about this very confusing part of English. The best I can do is leave some examples.
Correct:
That restaurant serves foie gras. (type of food)
That restaurant serves hamburger. (type of food)
That restaurant serves a foie gras dish. (specific item that the restaurant offers)
That restaurant serves an amazing foie gras dish. (specific item that the restaurant offers)
Incorrect: That restaurant serves fois gras dish.
The previous corrector probably missed this because in America it's kind of uncommon for restaurants to sell meals as "bowls," as that's kind of a Japanese cultural phenomenon. But the same logic applies. The categorization I came up with for "type of food" and "specific item" is something that I just came up with and have not stress-tested for border cases, but I think it holds true. I think as with all things the best thing to do is keep reading examples from native sources!
- The shop offers only 5 little foie gras bowls per day, and 4 bowls were already sold at that time.
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The shop offers only 5 little foie gras bowls per day, and 4 bowls were already sold at that time.
Your original sentence is perfectly fine.
- Therefore, I ordered the foie gras bowl and ate foie gras for the first time in forever.
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So I ordered the foie gras bowl and ate foie gras for the first time in forever.
I use "so" here because you didn't really give a rigorous reason for choosing the bowl -- it was kind of implied (you wanted to get the bowl because it was the last one), and so "therefore" is a little strong. But it would probably be fine the way you had it, too.
- The name of the menu was "foie gras bowl," but in fact, there were only one small slice of foie gras and some slices of beef on a rice bowl.
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The name of the dish was "foie gras bowl," but in fact, there was only one small slice of foie gras and some slices of beef on a rice bowl.
Or "the name ON the menu"
- The foie gras is maybe very delicious, but it's difficult for me to describe the taste.
- The foie gras may have been very delicious, but it's difficult for me to describe the taste.
- I thought cheap meats are more suit me than expensive meats because I want to eat a lot of meat.
- I think cheap meats are more suited for me than expensive meats, because I want to eat a lot of meat.
I like foie gras, but some people think it's disgusting!
Thank you so much for your thoughtful corrections and comments! (^^)
I learned the difference between "type of something" and "specific item." I think the foie gras bowl is a specific item that the shop offers indeed. However, for example, beef bowl is very common dish in Japan and there are a lot of restaurant that offers beef bowl, and I think beef bowl is a type of food. In this case, can I say something like "That restaurant serves beef bowl?"
> I like foie gras, but some people think it's disgusting!
Yes, I heard some people don't like the taste and some people think it's cruel. If anything, I like foie gras, but I don't like its price. It's too luxury for me!
笑 そうですね！In this case, I would say "That restaurant serves beef bowls." Using the plural is more natural to me. Your English is superb! This is a very illogical aspect of the English language.
Thank you for letting me know!
I'm so happy about your words. :)
- Surprisingly, foie gras bowl was sold at the ramen shop.
- Surprisingly, foie gras bowls were sold at the ramen shop.
- The shop offers only 5 little foie gras bowls per day, and 4 bowls were already sold at that time.
- This sentence is perfect! No correction needed!
- Therefore, I ordered the foie gras bowl and ate foie gras for the first time in forever.
- So, I ordered the foie gras bowl and ate foie gras for the first time ever.
- The name of the menu was "foie gras bowl," but in fact, there were only one small slice of foie gras and some slices of beef on a rice bowl.
- The name on the menu was "foie gras bowl," but in fact, there was only one small slice of foie gras and some slices of beef on a rice bowl.
- I thought cheap meats are more suit me than expensive meats because I want to eat a lot of meat.
- I thought cheap meats are more suitable for me than expensive meats because I want to eat a lot of meat.
Thank you very much for correcting my post! :)