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Bookmark or Share- How to ask if a person has done/had breakfast?It would usually be either “Did you have breakfast?” or “Have you had breakfast?” Also fine are “Did you eat… ?” and “Have you eaten… ?”
- grammar - "Have ever eaten" or "Ever ate" - English Language & Usage ...The past simple "I ever ate", means the eating is already over, ie. previously past meals. Nonetheless, the distinction would infer/play only if you were talking with a steak (in your plate) you already start to eat... In such case, "ever eaten" would include that last steak.
- etymology - What is the origin of the '7 8 9' joke? - English Language ...Because 7 ate 9.— Gina D'Amato, 9, Milltown. … As I'm of a certain age, I tend to blame all jokes like this on the anonymous geniuses at Dixie Cup Corporation, who produced a line of riddle cups in the 1970s, and again in the 1990s.
- Is "you ate?" an acceptable form to ask the question in spoken/informal ...or "You eat X?" All forms of the question use the verb's infinitive, not its past tense form. The question cannot be *"(You) Ate X?". So in each of the above cases the verb is not in the past tense form, but in some other form. Even informal short forms of the question don't use the past tense form. The only way I can see "You ate?"
- verbs - The pronunciation of "ate" - English Language & Usage Stack ...I find the OED note puzzling, because the OED2 (and OED3—there was no change) article gives the pronunciation of ate as “/eɪt/ /ɛt/ /iːt/” and also makes it clear that /eɪt/ is the older form, with /εt/ being analogically formed based on similarly patterning strong verbs like read and lead (and also beat and heat in certain dialectal ...
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