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fyfpoon@gmail.com - 29 Sep 2008 01:50 GMT

Can I say:" I would like to stack up enough food in my refrigerator?"

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Barbara Bailey - 29 Sep 2008 04:01 GMT

"fyfpoon@gmail.com" <fyfpoon@gmail.com> wrote in news:10483c40-5948-4a28-
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> Can I say:" I would like to stack up enough food in my refrigerator?"
>
> Thanks

Not really, if what you mean is that you want to have sufficient food in
your refrigerator to last for a certain time. The idiom I think you want is
"stock up", meaning "to lay in a store of".

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tony cooper - 29 Sep 2008 04:08 GMT

>"fyfpoon@gmail.com" <fyfpoon@gmail.com> wrote in news:10483c40-5948-4a28-
>a15d-35f8380a4e1d@k36g2000pri.googlegroups.com:
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>your refrigerator to last for a certain time. The idiom I think you want is
>"stock up", meaning "to lay in a store of".

"Stock up" is the right term, but the substitution does not make the
sentence right. When he says "enough", he needs to say enough for
what: I would like to stock up enough food in my refrigerator to last
a week".

Without "enough", the sentence works, though: "I would like to stock
up food in my refrigerator".

Neither is a great sentence, but they solve the problem of
stack/stock. A better sentence is "I would like to stock up my
refrigerator". The "with food" is understood.

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John Varela - 29 Sep 2008 19:08 GMT

> Neither is a great sentence, but they solve the problem of
> stack/stock. A better sentence is "I would like to stock up my
> refrigerator". The "with food" is understood.

And just where do you keep your beer?

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tony cooper - 29 Sep 2008 22:24 GMT

>> Neither is a great sentence, but they solve the problem of
>> stack/stock. A better sentence is "I would like to stock up my
>> refrigerator". The "with food" is understood.
>
>And just where do you keep your beer?

You don't consider beer to be an essential food group?

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mm - 29 Sep 2008 04:02 GMT

>Can I say:" I would like to stack up enough food in my refrigerator?"

Enough for what? Is that explained elsewhere?

Stack means putting one item on top of the other, on top of another or
more. If there are ony two items, it may not be thought of as a
stack. In this case, you don't really need "up", andw with "enough",
you're probably better off without "up".

There is certainly enough room in most refrigerators, if the food is
small enough, to stack things. But is that what you're really tryiing
to say. Do you care about the physical arrangement of the food or
only the amount?

You should NOT put an essential part of your question in the subject
line only. At best it's sloppy, and you're lucky I noticed it. But I
did.
So maybe the verb you want is "store"

>Thanks

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fyfpoon@gmail.com - 29 Sep 2008 06:25 GMT

> On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:50:22 -0700 (PDT), "fyfp...@gmail.com"
>
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> including alt, misc, the big 8 and everything else, 12 gigs is
> far more than someone who dl's mostly text should ever need.

But is there anything grammatically incorect about 'stacking up'
enough food in the refrigerator? The writer might have referred to a
situation in which he stores up his refrigerator in such a manner that
he piles the food up in order to make more room for storage.

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