Thursday, May 19, 2016
May I instruct that you learnt to use partitives with non-count nouns, rather that making them suffer abuse in your hands.
Words like "bread", "yam", "milk" and "salt" should take on partitives as this:
a loaf of bread/ a slice of bread
a tuber of yam/ a slice of yam
a tin of milk/a sachet of milk
a pinch of salt
It's a blunder when you just say:
"Give me one bread" or "Give me yam"
These are incorrect.
Please, note!
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