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Grammar and Linguistics > Countable and uncountable nouns????
Countable and uncountable nouns????
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catiahenriques
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Countable and uncountable nouns????
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Hi everybody.
Is chocolate a countable or uncountable noun?
I�ve done some reasearch on internet and it was uncountable but I found this example on cambridge dictionary online: I took her a box of chocolates.
I�ve got confused.
So can we say chocolates and it stays an uncountable noun?
Can you help me??
Thanks
C�tia |
11 Jan 2010
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suxanita
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Tornou-se Countable porque � 1 CAIXA de chocolates.
P.ex rice � uncount. mas se disseres a spoon of rice, este torna-se count.
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11 Jan 2010
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moravc
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Almost all uncountable nouns (items of food, drinks) can be changed to COUNTABLE, but you have to add the "container" - a basket of..., a bag of ..., a bowl of ..., a bottle of..., a sack of ...., a loaf of...(bread), three loaves of .... white bread, a slice of ... (cheese)..., a plate of, a slice of, a carton of, a piece of, a pot of, a drop of, a can of, a bucket of, a jug of, a drop of... water, a bar of, a jar of, a head of (lettuce), a roll of paper, a bunch of, a tube of, a crate of, a package of, a pack of, a stick of, a sack of ....
and also quantities:
two litres of milk, five meters of cloth..., a gallon of, a dozen of, a pint of, pound of , a quart of...
see these worksheets on QUANTITIES AND CONTAINERS:
http://www.eslprintables.com/buscador/buscar.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=containers&B1=Search#thetop
BTW - the chocolate - is UNCOUNTABLE - there isn�t much chocolate .... It is the brown "staff / material / mass")
a BAR of chocolate -- Milka, Cadbury... is COUNTABLE
COUNTABLE chocolates are "bonbons", small round pieces of chocolate wrapped in paper / foil...
so you can say "a box of chocolates"... similar to "a box of cookies", "a box of muffins" .....
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11 Jan 2010
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DUSIA
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It depends on the meaning
chocolate (U) in general I like chocolate!
a chocolate (C) a box of chocolates "Please, help yourself with a chocolate."
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12 Jan 2010
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libertybelle
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Dusia is correct except that you say:
Please help yourself to a chocolate.
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12 Jan 2010
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akuzmenok
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Chocolate can become countable if it means sweets (candies Am) coated in chocolate. Then you can say chocolates, or as Dusia said you can also say a box of chocolates. |
12 Jan 2010
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These are chocolates: