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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

The glass has stain

I know cloth/dress used to have stain, but I wonder what we have on utensils. Do we say, "The glass has stain?"
  

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User_gary I know cloth/dress used to have stain, but I wonder what we have on utensils. " to stain: to discolor with spots or streaks of foreign matter We have stains on kitchen utensils.

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  • User_gary I know cloth/dress used to have stain, but I wonder what we have on utensils.
  • " to stain: to discolor with spots or streaks of foreign matter We have stains on kitchen utensils.
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User_garyI know cloth/dress used to have stain, but I wonder what we have on utensils. Do we say, "The glass has stain?"
to stain: to discolor with spots or streaks of foreign matter

We have stains on kitchen utensils.
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The glass has a stain [on it]
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A stain is something that has soaked into whatever it has stained, and nothing can soak into glass, so glasses/glass does not stain.

Normally you'd just say 'this glass is dirty'.
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