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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Bag of something plural

If I have a bowl of chips and I eat all of them except one, can I still say that it is a bowl of chips?
  

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No. You have a chip. You can even have a few chips.

  • No.
  • You have a chip.
  • You can even have a few chips.
  • But if you don't have most of the bowl filled, you don't have a bowl of anything.
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No. You have a chip. You can even have a few chips. But if you don't have most of the bowl filled, you don't have a bowl of anything.

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