Piece

Hi Pleasehelp

You've told us you are a native speaker of English. So, here is a question for you:

How often do you hear anyone say "How many piece"?

(I expect your answer to be "Never".)

Quite frankly, I find it impossible to believe that you are actually being serious.

I know but let's say you order a large shipment of t-shirts...

Or if you really had to categorize t-shirts wouldn't it fall other pieces?

I usually would just say how many t-shirts...but i'm just asking 'cause i've never heard it but it's grammatically correct right?

pleasehelpI usually would just say how many t-shirts...but i'm just asking 'cause i've never heard it but it's grammatically correct right?

There are a lot of things that are perfectly grammatical, yet no one says them. Example: Excuse me green sir, do you pyromaniacs wash three tasty windowsills?
It's grammatical, it has a meaning, but I bet you'v

Hello, Pleasehelp,

How many pieces of T-shirts do you want? is decidedly ungrammatical:

*pieces of T-shirts is a partitive construction (featuring partition in respect of quantity). The partitive a piece of is used with words denoting an undifferentiated mass, ie, noncount nouns: a piece of bacon, a piece of advice, etc. As T-shirts is a plural

I do understand the use of "pieces" in terms of shipping, but you would say "We shipped 150 pieces: 50 t-shirts, 20 jackets, and 80 sweat pants."

You won't say "pieces of t-shirts" and you certainly would say "piece of t-shirts." Was that singular "piece" just a typo? Lord knows I make enough of those.

Grammar GeekI do understand the use of "pieces" in terms of shipping, but you would say "We shipped 150 pieces: 50 t-shirts, 20 jackets, and 80 sweat pants."

You won't say "pieces of t-shirts" and you certainly would say "piece of t-shirts." Was that singular "piece" just a typo? Lord knows I make enough of those.

It is a typo and also a bra

The only sense in which I could imagine saying "pieces of t-shirts" is if the t-shirts have been cut up into pieces -- for example, in order to be turned into a patchwork quilt. "The quilt used 100 pieces of t-shirts that came from 25 different shirts."

But should I use the singular or the plural? In Italian both would be possible: the singular would focus on the "source/material", and the plural would imply the "source" consisted of more than one thing.

How many pieces of t-shirt(s) did you use to make this artistic collage?
There are noodles, then I added the sauce, pieces of carrot(s), etc.

S

You have a deranged mind, K.

I'd go with the plural - unless there was so little frabric that it couldn't be more than one.

LOL, deranged... I need to remember that word.
Thanks!