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Is the sentence natural?

 
 
Reply Thu 25 Mar, 2010 02:59 am
I have put the shopping on the table.

Is the above sentence natural? In my country, the people seldom use 'shopping' to mean things that I have bought from the shop.

Thanks in advance.

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roger
 
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Reply Thu 25 Mar, 2010 03:42 am
@tanguatlay,
I would never say that. I might put the groceries on the table, but never shopping.
roger
 
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Reply Thu 25 Mar, 2010 03:43 am
@roger,
Of course, you never know what English speakers outside the U.S. are going to say.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 25 Mar, 2010 05:03 am
I have heard Americans refer to the sum of one's purchases as "the shopping," as in: "Help your father bring the shopping in from the car."
oolongteasup
 
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Reply Thu 25 Mar, 2010 05:10 am
@Setanta,
funnily enough i placed the shopping on the bench

but put it in the pantry
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sullyfish6
 
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Reply Thu 25 Mar, 2010 07:44 am
Shopping or "the shopping" can be a noun.

Shopping was very difficult today becasue I could not find a parking place.
= the entire experience

I put the shopping away = I put (all the items I bought) away.


farmerman
 
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Reply Thu 25 Mar, 2010 07:53 am
@sullyfish6,
what they said
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