"Two apples and bread"
Hi. I teach English for junior high school students in Japan. A couple of days ago, I saw a student writing the sentence above, and thought it was strange because of these stated below.
1. While the word of "bread" is surely uncountable, when you put a countable noun and an uncountable noun together, particularly in this case since earlier is actually counted as two, it's better to count "bread" by using expressions like "a loaf of bread" or "some bread".
2. The sentence can be confusing because it might refer two "apples bread", though it may still be odd.
3. Since the word of "and" is a coordinate conjunction, each words right before and after "and" should be as equal as possible. The sentence should hence be corrected to: "Two apples and some French bread"(both are kinds of fruit or bread) or "some fruit and some bread"(both are general term).
Am I correct? In casual conversation, I guess these aren't really big of deals. But what we teach is grammars and structures of English, so I'd like to care about details and specifics. Thank you.
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kyohei12 A couple of days ago, I saw a student writing the sentence above, and thought it was strange That is not a sentence, Kyohei. We need the whole sentence to judge. However, as it stands, I see no strangeness.
- kyohei12 A couple of days ago, I saw a student writing the sentence above, and thought it was strange That is not a sentence, Kyohei.
- We need the whole sentence to judge.
- However, as it stands, I see no strangeness.
- kyohei12 1.
- While the word of "bread" is surely uncountable, when you put a countable noun and an uncountable noun together, particularly in this case since earlier is actually counted as two, it's better to count "bread" by using expressions like "a loaf of bread" or "some bread".
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kyohei12A couple of days ago, I saw a student writing the sentence above, and thought it was strange
That is not a sentence, Kyohei. We need the whole sentence to judge. However, as it stands, I see no strangeness.
kyohei121. While the word of "bread" is surely uncountable, when you put a countable noun and an uncountable noun to
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