vegetable

Hi,
Just say 'Spinach is a vegetable'.

We don't 'count' spinach.

Clive

Thanks. So, Can I say,

(a) The spinach is a vegetable. (If I want to mention "this spinach)

(b) Spinach is a kind / type of (the) vegetable.

(a) No. All spinach is a vegetable. There's nothing unique about any one piece of spinach that makes it a vegetable or not.

(b) Okay without the word "the."

Thanks. But, If I say,

Spinach is a kind of vegetables. ( Is that correct?)

Hi,
Spinach is a kind of vegetables. ( Is that correct?)

No. Spinach is a kind of vegetable.

Clive

Hi,

You responded initially in this thread:

Hi,
Just say 'Spinach is a vegetable'.

We don't 'count' spinach.

Clive

Then, you seemed to have said this is OK:

Spinach is a kind of vegetable.

My question now is this: When you have phrases "a kind of" or "a sort of," does it mean I have made the subject matter countable? I th

Hi,

You responded initially in this thread:

Hi,
Just say 'Spinach is a vegetable'.

We don't 'count' spinach.

Clive

Then, you seemed to have said this is OK:

Spinach is a kind of vegetable.

My question now is this: When you have phrases "a kind of" or "a sort of," does it mean I have made the subject matter countable? I th