The home news silly square … why did 6 cry 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 So far, i haven't been able to verify that the onus belongs. 4 in several books and tv shows, there have been characters who say et instead of ate (as in, i et dinner yesterday at 6:00) I looked it up on wiktionary, which defines it but doesn't say where it's used
Et (colloquial or dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of eat The answer is that i have just eaten them is normal in british and i think us usage, but i just ate them is not normal in british use, or at any rate wasn't until recently (except in the different sense of mplungjan's answer) In bre, ate is sometimes pronounced /et/, and the cambridge dictionary gives this pronunciation Even if ate is pronounced like eight, there may well be subtle differences. In short, what is the difference between the following sentences I did eat my lunch an hour ago
They both are past tense Honestly, i'm confused between them. The etymological origin of the dog ate my homework was buried in the the tale of george washington and the cherry tree Although george was being truthful in stating that the dog ate it, over time the form and meaning of the phrase has changed to the dog ate my homework, a lie popular among kids of the twentieth century. Is have ever eaten correct or do i have to use the past simple i ever ate, since the process (of eating) is already over If i won't refer to any date in the past, which tense is the correct one
Nonetheless, have ever eaten sounds correct to me But sometimes the usage of past simple and simple perfect just confuses me. Why do we use the simple past but not the present or future in the following expressions Don't you think it's time we went a little further don't you think it's time we ate don't you think it's t.
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