Timeline for Does "this is the first time I have eaten sushi" mean I have finished eating or I'm still eating sushis?
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| S Jun 19, 2023 at 15:10 | history | edited | Barmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fix typo in title.
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| S Jun 19, 2023 at 15:10 | history | suggested | wjandrea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fix typo in title.
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| Jun 19, 2023 at 14:23 | comment | added | wjandrea | Beside the point, but use "it" instead of "that" here, to refer back to the eating of sushi. This might help: It, this and that in paragraphs - Cambridge | |
| Jun 19, 2023 at 14:17 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jun 19, 2023 at 12:51 | comment | added | pickarooney | I think the easiest and most natural way of saying this would be "This is my first time eating sushi and I like it" (still eating) "That was my first time eating sushi and I liked it" (finished) | |
| Jun 19, 2023 at 4:39 | answer | added | Flater | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 18, 2023 at 19:07 | comment | added | Weather Vane | There is a discrepancy between the title question and the body, where the additional "and I liked that" indicates you finished eating. From the title alone, it isn't known, because if you are still eating we don't say "This is the first time I am eating sushi" or "This is the first time I eat sushi". | |
| Jun 18, 2023 at 16:21 | answer | added | user81561 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 18, 2023 at 15:43 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 18, 2023 at 14:51 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 18, 2023 at 14:08 | comment | added | tchrist | Sushis is not a word in English. It's a mass noun, not a count noun. Only partitive constructions are allowed when counting is needed; e.g., Seventeen pieces of nigiri sushi. | |
| Jun 18, 2023 at 10:11 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | It's sushi, e.g “This is the first time I've eaten egg-fried rice” (NOT rices) | |
| Jun 18, 2023 at 9:41 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | If you want to use this while you were actually eating sushi, at the present time, you could say "This is the first time I have eaten sushi, and I like it". "Have eaten" is used here when we talk about past a past experience (that you have naver tasted sushi before, in the past)., and connecting that to what is happening now in the present. | |
| Jun 18, 2023 at 9:31 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | Where did you find that sentence? Did you make it up yourself? There are some errors in the grammar. I would suggest a correction "This was the first time I had eaten sushi, and I liked it." - this means it happened at an earlier time, and you are not currently eating sushi. Note also that "sushi" is generally an uncountable noun, and has no plural form. | |
| Jun 18, 2023 at 7:30 | history | asked | Yves Lefol | CC BY-SA 4.0 |