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Lucas21c Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Packet, package, and pack

Could you tell me which one is right and natural among (A)~(C) in the following sentence? Thank you.

I'm going to buy a [(A) packet/(B) package/(C) pack] of sugar after work. I ran out of it yesterday.
  

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"package" is not right. content=pack+of+sugar%2C+packet+of+sugar%2C+bag+of+sugar&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3

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  • "package" is not right.
  • content=pack+of+sugar%2C+packet+of+sugar%2C+bag+of+sugar&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3
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"package" is not right. The following graph showing the frequency of other choices accords with my own impressions:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pack+of+sugar%2C+packet+of+sugar%2C+bag+o
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