Can one say
[color=red]a. In their store, there are apples to eat fresh and apples to cook.
b. In their store, there are apples for eating fresh and apples for cooking.
c. In their store, there are apples to be eaten fresh and apples to be cooked.
d. They sell apples to eat fresh and apples to cook.
e. They sell apples for eating fresh and apples for cooking.
f. They sell apples to be eaten fresh and apples to be cooked.
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Many thanks.
You can say all of them, but I wouldn’t. I would say:
In their store they sell eating apples and cooking apples.
Thank you so much Beeesneees.
Are these grammatically acceptable (I understand that they are not idiomatic, but I just want to see if the grammar works)
A. They have good apples to eat but not good apples to cook.
B. They have good apples for eating but not good apples for cooking.
C. They have good apples to be eaten but not good apples to be cooked.
?
Many thanks.
[color=blue]I would say ‘In their store they sell eating apples and cooking apples.’ now correct
Thank you Canadian45 but that is the same sentence as Beeesneees’!
What is the issue? The punctuation?
My feeling is that the colon has to be there. It looks better with quotation marks, but Beeesneees wrote the sentence on a new line. It was obvious what she meant. I got her meaning.
In any case, I had asked a question about three new sentences. What do you think about them?
Many thanks.
Hi Azz,
Please don’t worry about Canadian’s post. He has taken issue with my perfectly acceptable punctuation because his ideas are too narrow to accept anything that does not follow a rigid rule. In doing so he has just created confusion over the point being made.
Again, with your new sentences, I would say something like:
They have good eating apples but their cooking apples are poor (quality).