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BettyBoop70 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Plural - Cabbage and Broccoli

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02br 02br 00I ate broccoli for dinner, or I'm growing broccoli in my garden. The same with lettuce and asparagus. You can have heads of lettuce - one head of lettuce or two heads of lettuce, but you don't refer to one broccoli or two lettuces.

— BarbaraPA

  • 02br 02br 00I ate broccoli for dinner, or I'm growing broccoli in my garden.
  • The same with lettuce and asparagus.
  • You can have heads of lettuce - one head of lettuce or two heads of lettuce, but you don't refer to one broccoli or two lettuces.
  • I think asparagus comes in "stalks"?
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0It's not so much that broccoli has a plural as that it's a non-count noun.02br
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0Thanks for your reply Grammar Geek! So ,would you say:02br
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0Are they called crowns, perhaps? I bought six broccoli crowns and ten cabbages (or ten heads of cabbage)0-
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0Don't know if it helps but maybe it could be just interesting to know: 'broccoli' is an italian word, and it's plural. The singular is 'broccolo' 050010id1
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0Thank you Grammar Geek and Francesca!02br
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00How about if you list vegetables (advertising or publicity wise...) For example:02br
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0When I was in New York I went to eat in a nice place in Times Square and they had a list of vegetables hung on the wall: I saw that 'broccoli' didn't have the 's', while 'tomatoes' did! Unfortunately I don't remember anything about cabbage 050010id6
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01cite10BettyBoop7012cite10Thank you Grammar Geek and Francesca!12br
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10I'm not sure what broccoli comes in! 12blockquote
10They are known as heads of broccoli, while the clustered divisions of the head are known as florettes.01blockquote
01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10I think asparagus comes in "stalks"?12blockquote
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0Footnote:02br
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00I think "florets" is the usual spelling, for the corymbs of broccoli.02br
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