Which is correct eat or eats?
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Which is correct eat or eats?
eat Definitions and Synonyms
present tense | |
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he/she/it | eats |
present participle | eating |
past tense | ate |
past participle | eaten |
Is I eat an apple correct?
Both “I eat an apple” (a thing) and “I eat apple” (stuff) are correct.
How do you use eats?
Eats sentence example
- It also eats fruit and vegetables.
- He always eats the grain I leave for him.
- He quotes Lafargue with approval: ” The working-man who eats a sausage and is paid five francs a day knows quite well that his employer robs him, and that a sausage tastes well and is good food.”
What is past of eat?
ate
Indicative
simple pastⓘ past simple or preterit | |
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I | ate |
you | ate |
he, she, it | ate |
we | ate |
Is it eaten or ate?
‘Ate’ is Simple Past tense. eg I ate dinner yesterday. ‘Eaten’ is the past participle. eg I’m not hungry.
Which is correct apple or an apple?
‘an’ before words that have a vowel sound. People would understand you either way, but an apple is correct and a apple is incorrect. An is always used with words that start with a vowel, such as apple, animal, elephant, etc. A is used with words that start with a consonant such as dog, cat, peach, etc.
How do you use ate in a sentence?
[M] [T] I ate a burger then went to bed. [M] [T] We ate fresh fruit after dinner. [M] [T] For three weeks, he ate nothing at all. [M] [T] He ate rice twice a day for many years.
Where do we use eat and eats?
As verbs the difference between eat and eats is that eat is (ambitransitive) to consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it while eats is (eat).
Is Have you eaten grammatically correct?
The correct expression is “Have you eaten?” This is due to the fact that the auxiliary verb “to have” is followed by the past participle of the base verb, for example, in this case, “eat.” While, indeed, the base-verb is “eat,” the past participle of the verb”eaten” is called a lexical verb.