diamondcutter
Senior Member
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2014
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- China
- Current Location
- China
Have you ever asked yourself why people often have trouble learning English? I hadn’t, until one day my five-year-old son asked me whether there was ham in a hamburger. There isn’t. This made me realize that there’s no egg in eggplant either. Neither is there pine nor apple in pineapple. This got me thinking how English can be a crazy language to learn.
(from an English textbook for senior high school students in China, published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press)
In the two sentences in red, “eggplant”, “pine”, “apple” and “pineapple” are used as uncountable nouns. I wonder if they are used correctly. What about rewriting the two sentences as follows?
This made me realize that there’s no egg in an eggplant either. Neither is there pine nor apple in an pineapple.
(from an English textbook for senior high school students in China, published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press)
In the two sentences in red, “eggplant”, “pine”, “apple” and “pineapple” are used as uncountable nouns. I wonder if they are used correctly. What about rewriting the two sentences as follows?
This made me realize that there’s no egg in an eggplant either. Neither is there pine nor apple in an pineapple.