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Please help!

Is this sentence correct?

It's sticky. It's a chocolate.
or
It's sticky. It's chocolate.

Do we write 'a' before chocolate?

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Please help!

Is this sentence correct?

It's sticky. It's a chocolate.
or
It's sticky. It's chocolate.

Do we write 'a' before chocolate?

thanks!
Rita
It depends on context. If you have a box of chocolates, they are countable. If you have a slab of chocolate, "chocolate" is uncountable.
 

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Do we write 'a' before chocolate?
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It's sticky. It's chocolate.It is uncountable word.

I have a bar of chocolate.
I have two bars of
chocolate.

Unlike the word' sweets 'which we can count.
 
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