Homework Help: English

Posted by rfvv on Monday, September 26, 2011 at 3:51am.

1. All the food was gone.
2. All the food were gone.
3. All the foods was gone.
4. All the foods were gone.

(Which ones are grammatical? What kind of noun is 'food'? A countable noun or an uncountable noun? A material noun or a collective noun? Thank you.)

English - Writeacher, Monday, September 26, 2011 at 7:36am
Only #1 is correct.

The word "food" is a non-count noun:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/noncount.htm

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