Answer — Exercise 3
7.1 - Food for thought·New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
Look at the underlined nouns in the examples (a-d) below and answer the questions.
Answer
1
- meals → countable
- food → uncountable
- (a black) coffee → countable
- coffee → uncountable
2
Coffee can both countable and uncountable. You can say a coffee or two coffees when you are talking about cups of coffee. You can say some coffee when you talking about coffee in general and are not saying exactly how much.
3
- Countable nouns → banana
- Uncountable nouns → salt, bread, fruit
- Nouns which can be both → chocolate, cake, chicken