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I eat breakfast vs I ate breakfast

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'I eat breakfast' is in the present tense, indicating a habitual action or a general truth. 'I ate breakfast' is in the past tense, indicating a specific action that occurred in the past.

Last updated: March 21, 2024 • 3509 views

I eat breakfast

This phrase is correct and commonly used to indicate a habitual action or a general truth.

This phrase is used to express a routine or habitual action. It indicates that the speaker regularly eats breakfast.

Examples:

I eat breakfast every morning before work.
He eats breakfast at 7 a.m. every day.
She eats breakfast with her family on weekends.

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So I eat breakfast there and...
No, I eat breakfast in the morning.
They change it over from CNBC when I eat breakfast here.
And every morning, Summer, I eat breakfast 20 yards away from my own rotting corpse.
I eat breakfast with Lavon every day with my smiley face fruit plate.
I eat breakfast alone, then you eat breakfast alone.
I eat breakfast there.
because every Sunday I eat breakfast at my moms house, -
I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4,000 Cubans trained to kill me.
Everyone at the university knows I eat breakfast at 8 and move my bowels at 8:20.
But these days, I eat breakfast for breakfast.
Are you saying that, there are not even a few times that I eat breakfast with you like this?
Now can I eat breakfast?
That's why I... Hang on. That's why I eat breakfast in a place in L.A.
And I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and then I have this new meal I made up.

Alternatives:

I have breakfast
I usually have breakfast
I typically eat breakfast

I ate breakfast

This phrase is correct and commonly used to indicate a specific action that occurred in the past.

This phrase is used to talk about a specific instance of eating breakfast in the past. It indicates that the action of eating breakfast happened at a particular time in the past.

Examples:

I ate breakfast at 8 a.m. this morning.
She ate breakfast before heading to the meeting.
He ate breakfast with his friends yesterday.

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Mar 27, 2007 ... 2,670 for "I ate breakfast 998 for "I had breakfast 95 for "I took breakfast 18,100 for "you eat breakfast 303,000 for "you have breakfast 4,030 for ...
Can I also say "I ate breakfast this morning"? 4. Also, is the expression 'today' a specific past or a time period? 5. Which is correct below? 6. If both are possible, ...
When I ate breakfast before I was hungry I still found myself getting hungry around 10-11am. And so I'd then land up eating twice. But when I eat my first meal of ...
Apr 2, 2015 ... Then I ate "breakfast" at my desk, which resulted in the familiar sugar high. I buzzed for the next few hours, but it didn't last. By late afternoon ...

Alternatives:

I had breakfast
I consumed breakfast
I had something to eat in the morning

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