What should I use?: Ground or Floor?
Hello. I am practicing English right now, but I found a sentence, it is the follow: following:
Why is the breakfast on the ground?
Would it be correct "Why is the breakfast on the floor?
I would like to know if they are synonyms or are different. Or when can use each one?
Regards.
3 Answers
It depends on where you were eating breakfast. Most likely you are talking about at the breakfast table, so it would be: "Why is the breakfast on the floor?" The ground being outside, the floor inside the house.
Synonyms:
Ground: dirt, soil, sand, terrain, sod
Floor: carpet, deck, flooring, mat, (ground)
Here is a link to synonyms: English synonyms
but I found a sentence, it is the follow:
The last part of your sentence should be "it is the following:" or "it is as follows:"
If the sentence you found said ground then it is assumed that breakfast is being eaten outside.
The word floor always assumes some building around it.
Floor and ground are not synonyms.
Without knowing the context of the sentence it is hard to speculate.
It is true that ground is always used when you're outside, except when saying ground floor, which is the floor at ground level inside a structure.
Floor is sometimes used to describe places outside, for example canyon floor, sea floor, forest floor.
Why was ground used in the sentence? Two possibilities come to mind. If you are talking about airplanes or air travel, breakfast could be on the ground or in the air. Or, if breakfast was dropped or spilled it could be on the floor or on the ground, depending on the location.
If breakfast was being served outside a facility you could say it was being served on the grounds, meaning the area outside, but part of the facility.
