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Hole One a New See Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

'vitamin' countable/uncountable

Hi everybody,

'Egg contains a lot of vitamin.' -> Is it good? I would like to refer to the amount of the vitamin and not to the fact it contains a lot of kinds of vitamins.

I didn't fint the word 'uncountable' at 'vitamin'. I only find 'countable', and it is strange to me in this case.

Thanks for your help in advance.
  

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' No, I've never seen this word used like this. '

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'Egg contains a lot of vitamin.' No, I've never seen this word used like this.
What I see is
eg 'An egg contains a lot of vitamin E.'
eg 'An egg contains a lot of vitamins.'
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Thank you, Clive Emotion: smile

Interesting. Is it an exception? For example let's see the word 'protein'.

'Egg contains a lot o
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Yes, 'protein' is OK.

It's more natural to talk of 'an egg' than of 'egg' simply as a substance. This is because an egg contains such different parts (the yolk and the white) that it is hard to think of it as a substance.

Clive
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Thank you, Clive Emotion: smile

Oh, you have 'separate' words for the parts of an egg. I would have used 'white part' and 'yellow part' s
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If you're making a general statement like this it should be "Eggs contain..." or "An egg contains..."

Vitamin (singular) would need to refer to a specific vitamin.
Vitamins (plural) would mean many different kinds of vitamins not the amount of a particular vitamin.
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