English grammar
Hello everybody! Can I say " I throw away that picture which you hate"???? Thank you everyone!
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It's structurally OK, but I can't think of a situation in which you could say this. The problem is the tense of the verb.
'Throw' is present simple. We use the present simple for general facts and repeated actions. This is incompatible with the idea of 'that picture which you hate', which is very specific.
If you've already done it you could say 'I've thrown away..' or 'I threw away'. If you're intending to do it you could say 'I'll throw away ..' or 'I'm going to throw away...'. Which of these do you mean?
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You can in a specific context. This is when you are using the simple present as part of a demonstration or as a commentary on an action you are doing at the moment of speaking. So you could walk over to a trash can, and say "I throw away that picture which you hate" and do the action.
This is similar to a cooking show on TV where the cook is constantly using the simple present to describe something he/she is doing at the moment of speaking "I take two eggs and I crack the shells and I put the eggs in a bowl..."
We also use the simple present in a similar situation: describing a football game, for example: "Marco has the ball. He passes to Giovani. Giovani kicks and scores!"
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I "threw"
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Hi Simona, yes you can say it like that, but if your talking in past you better use "threw away" instead. My advice? I'd say "I threw away the picture that you hate"
Hope that help you, ciao
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no YOu can not
the corect is I throw or threw away the picturea that you hate
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