He puts on cloth, He takes off cloth?

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He puts on cloth, He takes off cloth?
He puts cloth on, He takes cloth off?


Which one is correct?

Can it using in continuous tense? He putting on the cloth.
 

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Look up 'clothes'; it's probably what you mean. Ask again if you can't find examples.
 

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He puts on clothes.
He puts clothes on.

"On" can either put on before and after clothes?
(Wearing a clothes)

Why we use clothes instead of cloth? It that because T-shirt and pant consider as two things.
 
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Why we use clothes instead of cloth?

I am not a teacher

Because clothes is the right word and cloth isn't.

Clothes is not the plural of cloth, it's a completely different word.

Clothes are what you wear, cloth is a fabric or a piece of fabric.
 

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And cloths are several pieces of fabric, and you don't wear cloths.
And, for completeness, we don't have a singular 'clothe' as a noun; but to clothe (v) oneself is to put on clothes.
Also, you can make clothes out of cloth; you can make cloths out of old clothes. No doubt they have a similar etymology, but they are now different things.
 

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