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Countable nouns can be modified by a quantity.
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"I often buy fruit" vs "I often buy fruits"?
Check this dictionary:
Fruit is usually uncountable:
I love fruit.
✗Don’t say: I love fruits.
• Fruit is used as a countable noun when talking about particular
types of fruit:
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"I often buy fruit" vs "I often buy fruits"?
These are the grammar guidelines:
To say things in general,
we can use an uncount noun with no article.
Eg: I like cheese
or
we can use a plural count noun with no article.
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So, "Some advice" or "some advices"? Which is correct?
"Some advice" or "some advices" as in "I got some advice / advices for you"? So, Which is correct?
In Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, "advice" is uncountable noun, so "Some advice" is the correct one …
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Is it idiomatic to say "there are 5 Japanese tofus on the dish" to mean "there are 5 pieces ...
When you look for an English noun in an English dictionary, sometimes you see the noun being used as an uncountable and a countable noun. And normally, we use it as an uncountable noun when we want to …