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• Agreement Sum
• Agrmnt Diagnostic
• Reg Plural Nouns
• Irreg Plural Nouns
• Irreg Plural Prac
• Irreg Agreement
• Count / Noncount
• Group Nouns
• NonCnt/Cnt Prac 1
• NonCnt/Cnt Prac 2
• Determiners
• Quantity Phrases
• Some / Any
• Much / Many
• Little / Few
• Food Quantifiers
• 3rd Person Agrmnt
• Final -S Prac
• Complex Agrmnt
• Common Mistakes
• Sentence Edit
• Paragraph Edit
• Agr In Context

• On this page:
• Mass Noun/Quantifier Noun
• Food Quantifiers
• Negative Quantity Units
• Meat Quantifiers
• Practice 1
• Practice 2

Food Quantifiers

Referring to specific amounts or units

 

Food substances are not usually countable unless they have quantifiers!

 

 

Mass Noun vs. Quantifier + Noun

NONCOUNT FOOD NOUN	QUANTIFIER / UNIT
milk	a glass, a bottle, a carton, a gallon, a pitcher

 

 

 

Quantifiers or Units for Food

A container, weight or measurement device can be used as a quantifier.  In addition, there are shape quantifiers that are specific to an item.

 

RICE a grain, a bowl, a sack, a box	PASTA a piece, a package, a bag	BREAD a loaf,  a slice, a piece
CHOCOLATE a piece, a square, a bar	BEER a mug, a glass, a bottle, a keg	HONEY a spoonful, a jar,
MEAT a slice, a steak, a chop, a roast, a fillet	BUTTER a piece, a slice, a pat, a stick, a pound, a cup	COFFEE a cup, a pot

 

 

 

NON-COUNT NOUNS
FLUIDS	water, coffee, tea, milk, oil, wine, beer, soda, etc.
SOLIDS	ice, bread, butter, cheese, meat, etc.
PARTICLES	rice, corn, flour, sugar, popcorn, pepper, salt, cinnamon, oregano (spice names), tea, coffee, etc.
GROUPS	baggage, luggage, clothing, furniture, food, fruit, money, traffic, garbage, scenery, junk, mail, jewelry, homework, housework, work
CONCEPTS	happiness, health, love, fun, help, honesty, peace, progress, beauty, knowledge, justice, intelligence, luck, music, experience

See Noncount Noun List

 

 

Quantifier Unit

Negative

 

 

NOT QUANTITY OF THE	NOT A UNIT OF (THE)
Use a negative word before a quantity of expression to indicate little or none.	Use not a before a unit amount to indicate few or none.  Optionally, use the before the noun.
There's not much of the bread left. / Little of the bread is left.  (some)	There's not a lot of bread left.  (some)
Not any of the bread is left.  (no amount)	Not a slice of bread is left.  (0 pieces)
None of the bread is left.	Not a one/ a bit/ a piece is left.   one (pronoun) – refers to slice

See  Quantity Phrases – negative, Determiners "Basic Markers", Some / Any, Little / Few 

Pop-Q "Not a…one"

 

 

 

Meat Quantifiers

The animal vs. the meat

 

 

 

 

 

ANIMAL SOURCE	INANIMATE	QUANTIFIERS
An article is used before an animal name (unspecific, any). The word cattle is an exception.	No article is used before the meat.	An article is used before a piece or a butcher's cut of meat.  s
BEEF beef cattle (no singular form exists) a calf (a young milk fed animal) Cattle is the collective noun for cows, bulls, steers and heifers. A steer is a young castrated male. A heifer is a young female.	MEAT beef       veal	WHOLE / PART / CUT a roast, a leg, a rib, a flank     a steak, a slice, a chop a patty (hamburger–ground meat)
FOWL a turkey a chicken a duck	turkey chicken  duck	a roast a leg, a wing, a breast a boned turkey a patty (turkeyburger)
SEAFOOD a fish	fish	"a whole halibut"  a tail  a fillet (picture above) a steak  (picture below) a patty  a "salmon cake"

 

 

 

Practice 1

Animals and Meat   

 

 

 

The name for meat is often different than the animal from which it comes.

1. Select the meat name for each animal source.
2. Compare your response to the answer by clicking the "check" button to the right. 

 

#	ANIMAL SOURCE	FOOD NAME - YOUR RESPONSE	CHECK ANSWER
1.	a calf (the baby)	Would you like some -- beef calf chicken pork veal lamb venison ?
2.	a pig	Would you like some -- beef calf chicken pork veal lamb venison ?
3.	a bull or steer	Would you like some -- beef calf chicken pork veal lamb venison ?
4.	a sheep	Would you like some -- beef calf chicken pork veal lamb venison ?
5.	a rooster (male)	Would you like some -- beef calf chicken fish pork veal lamb ?
6.	a deer	Would you like some -- beef calf chicken fish pork veal lamb ?
7.	a fish	Would you like some -- beef calf chicken fish pork veal lamb venison ?

 

 

 

Practice 2

Cuts of Meat

 

 

Select the cut of meat or quantifier for each kind of meat.

 

#	MEAT	CUT OF MEAT - YOUR RESPONSE	CHECK ANSWER
8.	beef / veal	I would like -- a chop a steak a slice a leg a ham a filet a roast a burger .
9.	beef / lamb/ pork / veal turkey / chicken / any meat	I would like -- a chop a steak a slice a leg a ham a filet a roast a burger .
10.	lamb or pork	I would like -- a chop a steak a slice a leg a ham a filet a roast a burger .
11.	pork leg (ham)	I would like  -- a chop a steak a slice a leg a ham a filet a roast a burger .
12.	turkey / chicken / beef lamb / pork / any meat	I would like  -- a chop a steak a slice a leg a ham a filet a roast a burger .
13.	turkey / chicken / beef lamb / pork / any meat bread / pizza / cheese	I would like  -- a chop a steak a slice a leg a ham a filet a roast a burger .
14.	chicken / turkey / lamb	I would like  ? a chop a steak a slice a leg a ham a filet a roast a burger . *
15.	fish / beef	I would like  ? a chop a steak a slice a leg a ham a filet a roast a burger . **

 

In a restaurant, people usually refer to a menu item or dish using the:

• " I would like the lamb (dish)."
  " I would like the fresh fish of the day."

* Other parts of turkey and chicken: wing, breast, thigh, back, neck, feet
** Also, spelled fillet.