Unpacking English, Bit by Bit
A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.
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I remember teaching the rule in 8th grade English: amount for nouns that cannot be counted and number for objects that can be counted. An amount of sugar in a cake but a number of cups of sugar in the cake.
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I remember teaching the rule in 8th grade English: amount for nouns that cannot be counted and number for objects that can be counted. An amount of sugar in a cake but a number of cups of sugar in the cake.