i go to dinner and steak
I go to dinner and steak means you go to dinner and order steak because you think it's cool and you're too lazy to choose something else.
I went to dinner and steak because the menu said ‘steak’ and I didn’t read the rest.
Dinner and steak? I barely know what the other options are.
I went to dinner and steak because the waiter asked me what I wanted and I said ‘the big one’.
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