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Alyona C.
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Chocolate
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Dear friends,
One of my pupils wrote:
There is some chocolate in the bar and There is a chocolate in the bar.
Are they correct?
I think they are not correct. What do you think?
Thanks in advance.
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27 Oct 2010
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blunderbuster
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Chocolate is uncountable if you mean the material.
Chocolate is countable (a chcoloate) if you mean little pieces of candy made of chocolate, sometimes every single piece is wrapped and or decorated.
Was the student writing about chocolate bars like Mars, Snickers, Twix, etc?
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27 Oct 2010
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Alyona C.
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She was writing about a bar of chocolate like Mars and some chocolate on the table.
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27 Oct 2010
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SueThom
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I would understand "There is some chocolate in the bar" to mean that one of the ingredients in that candy bar is chocolate.
I would take "There is a chocolate ON the bar" to mean there is a piece of chocolate on some sort of counter (like a bar where drinks are served).
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27 Oct 2010
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foose1
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A Mars bar cannot be broken into pieces or squares like some chocolate bars. If it is a whole Mars bar, then I would say, "there is a Mars bar on the table." If there is a Mars bar that has been broken in half and the other half, a third or whatever has been eaten, then I would say, "there is a quarter/third/?? of a Mars bar sitting on the table. If the Mars bar is broken into pieces, then I would say, "there are some pieces of a Mars bar sitting on the table." Of course, if you can �t see what it is that the student is thinking/talking about, then it is really hard to correct them. |
27 Oct 2010
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