Thread: food or foods?
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Old 30-Jul-2006, 17:13
sheena55ro
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Default Re: food or foods?

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Originally Posted by bosun
As far as I know, food is uncountable noun. But I sometimes see foods, for example,
1. I like Korean food.
2. There are many kinds of korean foods( or korean food?)
Also, I wonder when to use kind of or kinds of, for example
1. There are many kinds of cars(or car???)
2. There is a lot of kinds (kind??)of fruit.
which one is right? Or do you have any other suggetsons?
1. I like Korean food - this is correct
2. There are many types/kinds of Korean food [ food :uncountable noun]

e.g What type of food do you usually have / eat?

1. There are many types of cars

Fruit has the same form in the singular and in the plural; this noun has 2 forms in the plural :fruit and fruits [depending on the context]

Fruits are good to eat.[plural]
She is buying some fruit . [plural]
She is buying a fruit.[singular]

There are so many fruits [ types of fruit] in that market!

These sites are quite useful:http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-w...countable.html
http://www.onestopenglish.com/teache...ary/vocab3.htm

All the best,

Last edited by sheena55ro; 30-Jul-2006 at 17:35.
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