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Is "tobacco" UNCOUNTABLE or COUNTABLE?
1.Is "tobacco" UNCOUNTABLE or COUNTABLE?
2.If it is countable, which one is right? pl. tobaccos or tobaccoes?
3.which meaning of tobacco is countable?
thanks.
9 avr. 2018 04:20
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The word "tobacco" by itself is not countable. You can not say "1 tobacco, 2 tobaccos, 3 tobaccos, etc."
"Tobacco" is counted by the plant, so you would say "1 tobacco plant, 2 tobacco plants." You could also count it as a "stalk of tobacco." (1 stalk of tobacco, 2 stalks of tobacco, etc.). How you phrase it, will depend slightly on the context it is used in.
9 avril 2018
It's usually uncountable, but could be pluralized to refer to varieties or kinds of tobacco. The plural is spelled with no "e" -- tobaccos.
See the entry in the Oxford:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/tobacco
9 avril 2018
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Compétences linguistiques
Chinois (mandarin), Anglais
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Anglais
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