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- word request - Breakfast + lunch = brunch ; lunch + dinner = linner . . .
Brunch, combining Breakfast and Lunch, is usually eaten mid-morning, in-between the normal breakfast and lunch time-frame, and usually consists of both breakfast and lunch foods There's not as much of a distinction between Lunch and Dinner menu items so there really isn't a separate word combining Lunch and Dinner
- Word for lunch + dinner eaten late? - English Language Learners . . .
A late breakfast early lunch combination meal is called "brunch" Is there a parallel term for the afternoon? What do I call "lunch" joined with "dinner"? Note that I don't mean a meal eaten betw
- What word do we use to mean evening breakfast?
Usually we use the word "breakfast" in the morning to mean to eat something, but what word do we use to mean "afternoon breakfast" and "evening breakfast"?
- word usage - Using the verb have instead of the verb eat - English . . .
I eat breakfast I mean they use the verb eat for a meal like breakfast or dinner So my questions are: Is this common to say "I am eating breakfast, lunch or dinner" for a meal time? Can we use the word have with the word eat interchangeably? For example when somebody phoned us while we are eating something (at anytime) and asks What are you
- Difference between have lunch and have a lunch? [duplicate]
Great, let's go now idioms: have lunch, have breakfast, have tea, have dinner, have supper I'm organizing a lunch for Mary, John Will you be able to attend? Yes, I'd love to come to a lunch for Mary I was planning a cocktail party, but your idea of a lunch is better idiomatic expression of an eating [ha ha] event: a lunch, a dinner, a tea
- Which preposition should I choose for lunch?
"At lunch" is an idiom that means "while we were eating lunch " More broadly, it may mean the time immediately before eating or immediately after eating but at a place associated with eating such as a restaurant "At" is usually an indicator of place I suspect (but do not have a citation) that "at lunch" etc derive from the old fashioned phrase "at table," meaning "sitting at a table while
- Uses of have you had and did you have [duplicate]
1) "Have you had lunch?" is preferred The phrasing suggests that you're asking something about how the person currently is, specifically whether he is hungry If you were asking about events from a week ago, then "did you have your lunch?" would be equally as good as "had you eaten had your lunch?" 2) In a similar manner, I suggest that "Did you have this problem when you were doing this?" is
- Should I use late lunch or a late lunch in the following?
The main meals, "breakfast", "lunch" and "dinner" are in this category, along with "tea" in the UK and Ireland "Late lunch" is not one of these general societal concepts, so we have to follow the normal rules of English and use the article "a"
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