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The follovvings sentences make me confuse,can you explain these sentence's meaning? Thanks!

1.How to make a meat ?
2.How to make a egg ?

2007-11-05 03:40:14 · 5 answers · asked by Tess 3 in Society & Culture Languages

Q2 my ansvver is ...........scrambled eggs..........but another people replying (Got from a Hen, so I dont understand it.)

2007-11-05 03:48:38 · update #1

this link for you information:
http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/my/profile?show=HA00864539

2007-11-05 03:55:13 · update #2

5 answers

It is hard to understand what these sentences mean.

To tell someone how to do it, it should be:

1. How to prepare meat.
2. How to prepare eggs. [or How to prepare an egg.]

To ask someone how to do it, it should be:

1. How do I prepare meat?
2. How do I prepare eggs? [or an egg]

One could also use "cook" instead of "prepare" in these sentences. "Make," is OK too, but could be confusing because "make" can mean a lot of different things besides cook.

A "hen" is a female chicken. Female chickens lay (or make) eggs. So the person who told you you can't "make" an egg, you have to get it from a hen, was joking about different meanings of the word "make."

2007-11-05 06:41:10 · answer #1 · answered by GPB 5 · 0 0

I really hope the link you posted isn't your English teacher's webpage, because the sentences simply do not make any sense to a native English speaker. You have every right to be confused!!

We would say:
How do you cook meat?
How do you cook eggs?

2007-11-05 12:04:57 · answer #2 · answered by Liliya829 4 · 0 0

The first sentence doesn't make sense. I'm assuming they refer to cooking meat and eggs. As in: How to cook meat and How to cook eggs.

2007-11-05 11:48:03 · answer #3 · answered by Debbie Queen of All ♥ 7 · 1 0

They have no meaning so don't worry about them - you cannot make "a meat" and would never refer to meat as "a", its an egg noit "a" and you canot make one of those either.

2007-11-05 11:48:45 · answer #4 · answered by LillyB 7 · 1 0

Don't worry, they aren't actually sentences, You're right to be confused.

2007-11-05 11:47:01 · answer #5 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 1 0

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