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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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Paint bucket/bucket of paint

She opened a paint bucket/bucket of paint and started painting the room.

Is one of these to be preferred over the other?

  

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a paint bucket = a (type of) bucket that usually contains paint a bucket of paint = a bucket that has paint in it Can you now work out which one you should use in your sentence?

  • a paint bucket = a (type of) bucket that usually contains paint a bucket of paint = a bucket that has paint in it Can you now work out which one you should use in your sentence?
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a paint bucket = a (type of) bucket that usually contains paint

a bucket of paint = a bucket that has paint in it

Can you now work out which one you should use in your sentence?

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