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Hanuman_2000 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Setence

Hello Teachers,

1.A man bought 100kg of rice.

2.A man bought 100 kg rice.

Which one is correct?

Thanks.
  

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Hi You need the of. Otherwise 100kg sounds like the name of a type of rice. 100kg rice...

— Nona the brit

  • Hi You need the of.
  • Otherwise 100kg sounds like the name of a type of rice.
  • 100kg rice...
  • It may seem obvious that this is the quantity that he bought, but to indicate quantity you need the of.
  • He bought a pack of rice.
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Hi

You need the of.

Otherwise 100kg sounds like the name of a type of rice. The man bought Basmati rice...wild rice...brown rice...100kg rice...

It may seem obvious that this is the quantity that he bought, but to indicate quantity you need the of.

He bought a pack of rice. - ok.
He bought a pack rice - not ok - what is 'a pack rice?' Rice designed to
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He bought a pack rice - not ok - what is 'a pack rice?' Rice designed to be kept in your back pack?


Hi CJ

If it really were a correct sentence and 'a pack rice' were a type of rice 'designed to be kept in your back pack', wouldn't it be correct to remove the article? Like this?
He bought pack rice

And 'He bought a pack rice sound
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I'd say "he bought a pack of rice"...
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I was trying (badly it seems) to come up with an example of why you can't remove 'of' in the original sentence.

'He bought a bottle of milk'

compared with

'He bought a 'Bottle Milk' assuming Bottle Milk is a brand name.
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