Two bucket or buckets of milk.

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1) He came out of the room with two bucket of milk.

2) He cam out of the room with two buckets of milk.

What do we need to say "Two bucket of milk" or "Two buckets of milk"?
 

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Have you seen a definition of "bucket" that describes it as uncountable or non-count?
 

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1) He came out of the room with two bucket of milk.

2) He came out of the room with two buckets of milk.

[STRIKE]What[/STRIKE] Do we need to say "Two bucket of milk" or "Two buckets of milk"?

Note my corrections above. You will be able to work the answer out for yourself very easily by concentrating on GoesStation's question in post #2.
 

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Note my corrections above. You will be able to work the answer out for yourself very easily by concentrating on GoesStation's question in post #2.

1) He came out of the room with a bucket of milk.

2) He came out of the room with two buckets of milk.


Are these correct now?
 

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Yes, they are.
 

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They are correct, but wouldn't someone be more likely to come out of a cowshed with buckets of milk? What's the context?
 

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If you have only one cow you might need only one bucket.
:)
 

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They are correct, but wouldn't someone be more likely to come out of a cowshed with buckets of milk? What's the context?

Actauly, it was from a joke.
 

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Actauly, it was from a joke.

Yet again, you didn't proofread your post. Have you still not set your spellchecker in your browser to English? If you had, it would have underlined "Actauly" to show it was spelled incorrectly.
 

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