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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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00Have you eaten Mexican foods? -- Why not 'food'?02br
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00Do you like Mexican foods? -- Why not 'food'?0-
  

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01i00Foods02i00 is wrong here; use 01b01i00food02i02b00.0-
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0Thank you.02br
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00Absent of any prior context, how come no1 would be allowed when no. 2 wouldn't?02br
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00You are not allowed to bring liquids into the seminar rooms.02br
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00You are not allowed to bring foods into the seminar rooms. 0-
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00Because 01i00liquids02i00 is a countable noun (here plural), while 01i00food02i00 is uncountable except in topical discussions of nutrition and cuisine.0-
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0Thank you, again.02br
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00How come both seem to be good.02br
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00You shouldn't bring liquid into the seminar room any time. -- good? Does that mean in any context, a person has an open option to use 'liquid' or 'liquids' depending on how he/she perceive a situation or the item? Why doesn't that option doesn't seem to be available for 'food' below?0
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00It is an option unavailable to01i00 food02i00, that is all.02br
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01i00You shouldn't bring 01b00liquid(s)02b00 into the seminar room any time02br
00You shouldn't bring 01b00food02b00 into the seminar room any time02br
00You shouldn't bring 01b0
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0Thank you, again.02br
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00Your sentence "It is an option unavailable to01i00 food02i00, that is all," why did you use a comma? I have seen this kind of uses in print and have wondered wjhat the part following the comma is called? I think some might argue the sentence is not grammatical but I don't think it is. Can you tell me the use, so I can use i
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