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It's noodles.
Hi everyone!
Could you please tell me does the sentence "It's noodles." sound natural? (Say, a boy is explaining to his friend, what is on the table : "It's a banana." [just 1 banana] "It's soup." [a bowl of soup] "It's noodles." [a bowl of noodles]")
I believe, we don't need to say "These are noodles" if we just want to explain the fact that here we have something (noodles)? I think, in such a case "it's" means just the fact, so should describe both single and plural, right?
Thanks!
2019年3月11日 07:07
解答 · 7
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It can be natural, especially if it refers to a whole dish involving noodles.
If you serve your friend a dish of noodles, for example, the conversation might go like this:
Mmm, this looks good. What is it?
It's noodles. ( or perhaps 'It's noodles cooked with garlic')
Here are three sentences, all in the singular. We're using 'noodles' to refer to the dish - referring to how you've cooked, seasoned, and served the noodles. Once the noodles have become a dish, they can be seen as a singular item.
2019年3月11日
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Note you would say "It's a banana" if your friend was pointing to the banana and looking at you to tell you what it is. If you were pointing at the banana, you would say "That's a banana/That's soup/That's noodles"
2019年3月14日
so, the conversation would go like this?
Friend: What is on the table?
Boy: A banana, soup, and noodles.
or
Friend: What's on the table?
Boy: Bananas.
or
Boy: Soup.
or
Boy: Noodles.
Does that help?
2019年3月11日
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