Mateo Guzmán
“I often buy fruits when I go to the supermarket” – illogical? I am an English assistant and I often hear my non-native students say: I often buy fruits when I go to the supermarket. I think it is wrong logically because "go" means "to move or travel from one place to another". I am not sure whether it implies "you are already there" Should we change to: I often buy fruits when I am at the supermarket but it does not say that "I go to the supermarket". How do native speakers express that idea? Note: when could mean "after", so, I often buy fruits when I go to the supermarket=I often buy fruits after I go to the supermarket
28 Thg 07 2017 17:21
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For me, as a native speaker (and frequent fruit-buyer), the only thing wrong with the sentence is the plural 'fruits'. When I read your title, I assumed it was a question about countable and uncountable nouns. If you change it to "I often buy fruit when I go to the supermarket", your sentence is 100% natural. There is no problem at all with 'go'.
28 tháng 7 năm 2017
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Your suggestion would work too, but there is nothing wrong with saying "I often buy fruit when I go to the supermarket." Based on your definition of "go", you could reword the sentence like this: "I often buy fruit when I travel to the supermarket" or "When I travel to the supermarket, I often buy fruit." "Go" does not imply that you already there. It simply means that you usually purchase fruit when you are at the store. Hope this helps.
28 tháng 7 năm 2017
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