Would you like an apple spanish

like an apple or apples

Sun14

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Hello, my friends,

I was wondering whether i should use single or plural form?

1) Do you like an apple, a banana or an orange.

2) Do you like apples, bananas or oranges.

Thoughts and context: We came to a party and there were some fruit to choose. Someone asked me this question.

The title is a typo. I hope the moderator could fix it for me. Thank you.

Moolric

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Sun14

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Moolric

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Then neither will work.

If they were offering you whole pieces of fruit

Would you like an apple, a banana or an orange?

If they were offering you cut up pieces of fruit, but you could only have some of one type

Would you like apple, banana or orange?

Or if they were offering you cut up fruit but you could have whatever you liked

Would you like any apple, banana or orange?

Sun14

Senior Member

Then neither will work.

If they were offering you whole pieces of fruit

Would you like an apple, a banana or an orange?

Moolric

Senior Member

Apple, please. or An apple.

and they’d be handed a single apple. With that question they would not be expecting more than one, so wouldn’t specify a number.

Sun14

Senior Member

Apple, please. or An apple.

and they’d be handed a single apple. With that question they would not be expecting more than one, so wouldn’t specify a number.

owlman5

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Sun14

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But there is still oranges and bananas. Don’t you find it a bit clumsy to say:

Would you like an apple or some apples or a banana, etc.?

owlman5

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Sun14

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owlman5

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No, I don’t. Maybe the person who offered the fruit assumed that the listener would only want one piece of fruit. Maybe the speaker only had a little fruit to offer and didn’t want to give too much to any one person. There may be other good reasons for using «an apple.»

Sun14

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No, I don’t. Maybe the person who offered the fruit assumed that the listener would only want one piece of fruit. Maybe the speaker only had a little fruit to offer and didn’t want to give too much to any one person. There may be other good reasons for using «an apple.»

No, I didn’t mean that. You seemed to be concerned about the inaccuracy of every suggestion you received. You seemed to want a question that offered the possibility of one or several apples. I gave you the sort of question that could do that. We agreed that it sounded clumsy. I gave you a perfectly natural question to use when you really don’t care how much fruit your guest takes: Do you want any fruit? Or: Would you like some fruit?

Thank you. I have a new situation in mind:

I went to a superstore. When I went into the fruit section. The salesman told me there was a discount on apples and bananas and asked me:

1) Would you like an apple or apples, a banana or bananas?

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Would you like one/some apples

Silver

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I searched «would you like one» and found nothing, so I posted this.

I bought a bag of apples today (around 7 pounds), and I met a friend, should I say:

Would you like one?

Would you like some apples?

If I want to ask him whether he wants to eat an apple?

Logically I think «Would you like one» is good because no one eats more than one apple, am I right?

The Newt

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Silver

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heypresto

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Silver

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What do you mean, you think both are fine, Silver? You put a by the second example in post 1 .

There’s a very straightforward factual issue here.
How many apples are you offering your friend, one or more than one?

Silver

Senior Member

I’m so, so, so sorry, Loob. I was thinking two things, and here’s the full context:

I bought a bag of apples, I saw a friend. I wanted to invite him to eat an apple. So I asked the question in the OP,

Would you like an apple? (I think would you like some apples is wrong. This question is answered by all of you. )

The second question, same context:

I carried a bag of apples, I saw a friend, I wanted to invite him to eat apple, I don’t bring one from the bag but I pull widely the plastic bag and ask him to pick, I think in this context, this following question is fine, am I right? Because I have to be generous, I should stick to:

Would you like some apples? (Say this with the bag opening for his picking. )

JulianStuart

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Hermione Golightly

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Here too we would probably open the bag and offer it the friend rather than take one out of the bag to give to the friend, but that reflects the notions first that the person has a choice, and second that you don’t touch food that others are going to eat. If you have an open packet of biscuits/cookies or candy/sweets, you would hold the packet out to the friend. If the food is on a plate you offer the plate.

Here nobody would dream of taking more than one item at a time.

JulianStuart

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Myridon

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Silver

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waltern

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JulianStuart

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Because sometimes you want to give away as many as possible, as I said in my example.
It’s not a cultural thing: if you have a bag and you want to offer a friend an apple, you don’t say «Would you like some apples?»

Silver

Senior Member

Thanks a lot, Waltern, JS.

Yes, I did read JS’ comments in #12, with which I totally agree. I also agree with what JS said in #16, which was said earlier in this thread. I thought I’d made myself clear.

In China, at least, among my friends, to my grandmother and her friends, if she bought a bag of apples and met a friend on the street, she would say «Would you like some apples», because we were taught to be generous with our friends, if you offer only one apple, this would make you look «disgraceful». (Oh, Silver has a bag of apples, around 15 apples, he offered me only one.)

In a word, I’d rather offer my friend some apples than only one, that’s what I called ‘cultural difference’ earlier. (Anyway, I’ve put down all your comments in my notebook, shall we just stop here? )

LaVache

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Here too we would probably open the bag and offer it the friend rather than take one out of the bag to give to the friend, but that reflects the notions first that the person has a choice, and second that you don’t touch food that others are going to eat. If you have an open packet of biscuits/cookies or candy/sweets, you would hold the packet out to the friend. If the food is on a plate you offer the plate.

Here nobody would dream of taking more than one item at a time.

JulianStuart

Senior Member

Thanks a lot, Waltern, JS.

Yes, I did read JS’ comments in #12, with which I totally agree. I also agree with what JS said in #16, which was said earlier in this thread. I thought I’d made myself clear.

In China, at least, among my friends, to my grandmother and her friends, if she bought a bag of apples and met a friend on the street, she would say «Would you like some apples», because we were taught to be generous with our friends, if you offer only one apple, this would make you look «disgraceful». (Oh, Silver has a bag of apples, around 15 apples, he offered me only one.)

In a word, I’d rather offer my friend some apples than only one, that’s what I called ‘cultural difference’ earlier. (Anyway, I’ve put down all your comments in my notebook, shall we just stop here? )

If I want to ask him whether he wants to eat an apple?

Logically I think «Would you like one» is good because no one eats more than one apple, am I right?

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Expressing Wishes in Spanish: Examples and Listening Practice

If we found “El genio de la lámpara” (Genie in the bottle), we could have “tres deseos” (wishes), but what if the genie only speaks Spanish. That would be a problem! In this lesson, we will learn different ways for expressing wishes in Spanish by using the equivalent structure “I would like to” in Spanish, and verbs like “Desear” (to wish) and “Gustar” (to like). You will also be able to practice with two listening activities in Spanish. Comencemos…

Vocabulary and Grammar Intro: Expressing wishes in Spanish.

Let’s begin by introducing 10 common wishes in Spanish people often have such as “Ser millonario” (being a millionaire) or “Vivir en un lugar pacífico” (live in a peaceful place). Know that you can check their pronunciation later with the audio examples in this lesson.

Saying “I wish” and “I want” in Spanish

In order to say what we “wish” and “would like” in Spanish we can use two verbs: “DESEAR” (to wish) and “QUERER” (to want). These verbs are commonly followed by a verb in infinitive such as “TENER” (to have) as in “(Yo) Deseo tener un auto”/”Yo quiero tener un auto“. Notice that QUERER is a stem-changing verb, so the stem will change to “QUIER-” for all pronouns, except for “Nosotros”. Listen to the following examples using both DESEAR and QUERER for expressing wishes in Spanish.

“I would like to” for expressing wishes in Spanish

The most common way to say “I would like to” in Spanish is by using the verbs GUSTAR (to like) and DESEAR (to wish) in its conditional form, that is “el condicional simple”. This can be easily done by adding the suffix “-ía” to the end of the end of the verb. This way “DESEAR” will change to “DESEARÍA” and “GUSTAR” to “GUSTARÍA”. When saying “I would like to…” in Spanish, you will also need a direct object pronoun before GUSTARÍA, e.g. “Me gustaría…” (I would like to), “Te gustaría…” (you would like to) and so on. After GUSTARÍA, we will add an activity like those in the picture above, for example: “Me gustaría poder ayudar a otras personas“.

The conditional form “DESEARÍA” can be used similarly to “GUSTARÍA” for expressing wishes in Spanish, with the difference that we will use normal Spanish subject pronouns not direct object pronouns. This means that instead of saying “Me desearía…”, we simple have to say “Yo desearía…” like in “Yo desearía poder ayudar a otras personas“. In addition, DESEARÍA + infinitive will be used for the subjunctive in Spanish, that is sentences like “I wish I had” and “I wish I could”. In Spanish, we will keep the second part of these forms in the present tense, e.g. “Desearía tener” (I wish I had…) and “Desearía poder” (I wish I could).

Last, another way to say almost the same as “Me gustaría” is by using the verb “QUERER”(to want) in its conditional form “Quisiera” as in “(Yo) quisiera ser millonario“. Here are some more examples using the conditional form of these verbs in Spanish to talk about wishes in Spanish.

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Modal verbs 1 Name______________________

Task #1 Choose the correct word.

1. I think you might/ought to see a doctor.
2. Should/May I borrow your book, please?
3. I have to/could go to the grocery store. My fridge is empty.
4. You must/ought to be very hungry. Would you like an apple.
5. Could/Should you pass me some sugar? I like sweet tea.
6. You must be/can’t be very proud of your son he is a champion.
7. You must be/should be exhausted after all your hard work.
8. She mustn’t/shouldn’t stay in bed all day unless she is ill.
9. It’s very late. The children must/can’t be sleeping.
10. Susan has broken her leg. She can’t/have to walk now.

Task #2 Fill in: must(2), mustn’t, can, can’t, could(2), may, might, have to.

1. Guess what! Our team has just won the game. No way!

1. Excuse me, sir. You ……… park here. It’s forbidden.
2. How about to watch a movie? Sorry, but I ……… finish my homework.
3. Look! It’s Jane! No, it ………. be. She is in Paris on business.
4. ……….. I turn the light off, please.
5. ……….. I have your name, please.
6. I think it ……….. be warm soon.
7. ……….. you help me please? I think I got lost.
8. The streets ……….. get very slippery when it rains.
9. You ……….. be very thirsty, it’s hot outside.

Task #1 Choose the correct word.

1. I think you might/ ought to see a doctor.
2. Should/ May I borrow your book, please?
3. I have to /could go to the grocery store. My fridge is empty.
4. You must /ought to be very hungry. Would you like an apple.
5. Could /Should you pass me some sugar. I like sweet tea.
6. You must be /can’t be very proud of your son he is a champion.
7. You must be /should be exhausted after all your hard work.
8. She mustn’t/ shouldn’t stay in bed all day unless she is ill.
9. It’s very late. The children must/can’t be sleeping.
10. Susan has broken her leg. She can’t/have to walk now.

Task #2 Fill in: must(2), mustn’t, can, can’t, could(2), may, might, have to.

1. Guess what! Our team has just won the game. No way! You must be joking!
2. Excuse me, sir. You mustn’t park here. It’s forbidden.
3. How about to watch a movie? Sorry, but I have to finish my homework.
4. Look! It’s Jane! No, it can’t be. She is in Paris on business.
5. Could I turn the light off, please.
6. May I have your name, please.
7. I think it might be warm soon.
8. Could you help me please? I think I got lost.
9. The streets can get very slippery when it rains.
10. You must be very thirsty, it’s hot outside.

Modal verbs 2 Name______________________

Task #1 Choose the correct word.

1. I can/could speak English but I can’t write it very well.
2. She can’t/needn’t spend 3 weeks in Rome, she has to come back to work.
3. You mustn’t/shouldn’t park your car on double yellow lines.
4. You shouldn’t/mustn’t be so rude with Mary, she is very sensitive.
5. You should/must obey the laws, or you will get in jail.
6. Should/May I borrow your pen, please?
7. You needn’t/have to buy any cat food. We’ve got plenty.
8. I think you ought to/might take your dog to a vet.
9. May/must I call you next week, please?
10. It might/should rain tomorrow. You should take an umbrella with you.

Task #2 Fill in: should(2), shouldn’t, must, mustn’t, have to(2), can, can’t, may .

1. You ……….. turn your TV off when not watching it.
2. Excuse me sir, you ……….. smoke here, it’s forbidden.
3. I can’t go to the movie theater with you today, I ……….. work.
4. You ……….. obey your parents until you are 18.
5. You ………. smoke it’s very bad for your health.
6. We don’t ……….. go to school in August.
7. I ……….. cook a very delicious chocolate cake with walnuts.
8. I ……….. speak Spanish, but I would like to learn it.
9. You ……….. be honest and sincere with your friends.

10… ……… I borrow your car for a weekend, please?

Task #1 Choose the correct word.

1. I can /could speak English but I can’t write it very well.
2. She can’t/ needn’t spend 3 weeks in Rome, she has to come back to work.
3. You mustn’t /shouldn’t park your car on double yellow lines.
4. You shouldn’t /mustn’t be so rude with Mary, she is very sensitive.
5. You should /must obey the laws, or you will get in jail.
6. Should/ May I borrow your pen, please?
7. You needn’t /have to buy any cat food. We’ve got plenty.
8. I think you ought to /might take your dog to a vet.
9. May /must I call you next week, please?
10. It might /should rain tomorrow. You should take an umbrella with you.

Task #2 Fill in: should(2), shouldn’t, must, mustn’t, have to(2), can, can’t, may .

1. You should turn your TV off when not watching it.
2. Excuse me sir, you mustn’t smoke here, it’s forbidden.
3. I can’t go to the movie theater with you, I have to work.
4. You must obey your parents until you are 18.
5. You shouldn’t smoke it’s very bad for your health.
6. We don’t have to go to school in August.
7. I can cook a very delicious chocolate cake with walnuts.
8. I can’t speak Spanish, but I would like to learn it.
9. You should be honest and sincere with your friends.

10. May I borrow your car for a weekend, please?

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