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Anonymous
04-11-2004, 04:55 AM
Hi,
Would you please rephrase these sentences into natural ones for me?
1. Shark/Shark's fin provides gelatinous bulk in shark/shark's fin soup, but it has no taste - the soup has to be flavored with chicken or other stock.
2. While a fisherman in India will earn only $6 per pound of shark/shark's fin, a bowl/bowlful of soup can cost $100 in a Hong Kong restaurant.
3. They didn't have even a bowl/bowlful of soup to eat.
4. In the picture, an old man is seated at a table with a bowl/bowlful of soup.
5. [A glass of fresh milk, A fresh glass of milk] in the morning is one of my great pleasures of life.
Thanks in advance.
Have a good day.

Pete
04-11-2004, 06:13 PM
Hi,
Would you please rephrase these sentences into natural ones for me?
1. Shark/Shark's fin provides gelatinous bulk in shark/shark's fin soup, but it has no taste - the soup has to be flavored with chicken or other stock.
2. While a fisherman in India will earn only $6 per pound of shark/shark's fin, a bowl/bowlful of soup can cost $100 in a Hong Kong restaurant.
3. They didn't have even a bowl/bowlful of soup to eat.
4. In the picture, an old man is seated at a table with a bowl/bowlful of soup.
5. [A glass of fresh milk, A fresh glass of milk] in the morning is one of my great pleasures of life.
Thanks in advance.
Have a good day.
1. Shark/Shark's fin provides gelatinous bulk in shark/shark's fin soup, but it has no taste - the soup has to be flavored with chicken or other stock. [Both terms are used with the same meaning.]
2. While a fisherman in India will earn only $6 per pound of shark/shark's fin, a bowl/bowlful of soup can cost $100 in a Hong Kong restaurant. [Both "bowl" and "bowlful" are ok here, but "bowlful" is much less common. Technically, a "bowlful" is a quantity, the amount that a bowl would hold. A "bowl" of soup could be a quantity, but usually it refers to both the bowl and the soup it is holding.
3. They didn't have even a bowl/bowlful of soup to eat. [See my comment for #2.]
4. In the picture, an old man is seated at a table with a bowl/<strike>bowlful</strike> of soup. [See my comment for #2.]
5. [A glass of fresh milk, A fresh glass of milk] in the morning is one of my great pleasures of life. ["A glass of fresh milk" is most common; it means that the milk is fresh from the cow (or whatever). "A fresh glass of milk" is possible, but it means that the milk has recently been poured into the glass.]