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What is the difference between "an apple pie" and "apple pie"?

Which sentence is the best? 1,He is eating an apple pie. 2,He is eating apple pie. 3,He is eating apple pies. I am working on the textbook for teaching the present continous form.

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1. i would say he is eating apple pie. when you say he is eating AN apple pie, it sounds like he's eating the whole pie. and the use of plural, apple pies, sounds like he's eating multiple pies!
2. If he's eating "an apple pie" then you're pushing the assumption that he is eating the entire thing while when you state he's eating "apple pie" you place the mental image of eating just a portion/piece of pie.
3. if you say he is eating an apple pie, that means he's eating a whole pie. If you say he's eating appple pie, that just means he's generally eating it, amount isn't indicated. He is eating apple pies means he's eating numerous pies. I don't know what your trying to say but most people don't eat a whole pie, let alone more than one. So I would go with he's eating apple pie
4. ok, it would probably be "an apple pie" only because, when you have a vowel before an an, you have to put it as : 1) He is eating an apple pie
5. He is eating an apple pie denotes the fact that he's eating one whole pie. He is eating apple pie means just that he's eating apple pie (could be a slice could be half the pie, we don't know). He is eating apple pies means that he's a pig who's gouging himself on more than one pie while people are starving all over the world.
6. Most probably I will nod with,"He is eating an apple pie". As the formality of a breakfast would be one apple pie as breakfast.
7. 2. Otherwise , he is either a glutton or a gourmand,