It's noodles. Hi everyone! Could you please tell me does the sentence "It's noodles." sound natural? (Say, a boy is explaining to his friend, what is on the table : "It's a banana." [just 1 banana] "I

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It's noodles. Hi everyone! Could you please tell me does the sentence "It's noodles." sound natural? (Say, a boy is explaining to his friend, what is on the table : "It's a banana." [just 1 banana] "It's soup." [a bowl of soup] "It's noodles." [a bowl of noodles]") I believe, we don't need to say "These are noodles" if we just want to explain the fact that here we have something (noodles)? I think, in such a case "it's" means just the fact, so should describe both single and plural, right? Thanks!

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It can be natural, especially if it refers to a whole dish involving noodles. If you serve your friend a dish of noodles, for example, the conversation might go like this: Mmm, this looks good. What is it? It's noodles. ( or perhaps 'It's noodles cooked with garlic') Here are three sentences, all in the singular. We're using 'noodles' to refer to the dish - referring to how you've cooked, seasoned, and served the noodles. Once the noodles have become a dish, they can be seen as a singular item.

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Note you would say "It's a banana" if your friend was pointing to the banana and looking at you to tell you what it is. If you were pointing at the banana, you would say "That's a banana/That's soup/That's noodles"

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so, the conversation would go like this? Friend: What is on the table? Boy: A banana, soup, and noodles. or Friend: What's on the table? Boy: Bananas. or Boy: Soup. or Boy: Noodles. Does that help?

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