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Level of difficulty
1 elementary
5 intermediate
9 advanced

Nouns

Count - non-count nouns, Part 2 (select counters)

3-5

Explanation and discussion:

In English, there are many partitive containers; see below for a table of them. First of two parts.

Example(s):

Numerical

pair	2	shoes, pants, glasses, cards, hands, gloves, etc.
dozen	12	roses, eggs, donuts, etc.
duplicate	2	paperwork, forms, etc.
doubles	2	drinks, games, etc.
triples	3	games.
triplicate	3	paperwork, forms, etc.
quadruplicate	4	paperwork, forms, etc.
score	20	not common, but famous in Lincoln's speech (Four score and seven years ago).
gross	144	business in wholesale quantities.
ream	500	paper.
twins	2	babies in multiple births.
triplets	3	babies in multiple births.
quadruplets	4	babies in multiple births.
quintuplets	5	babies in multiple births.
sextuplets	6	babies in multiple births.
septuplets	7	babies in multiple births.

Food related

bunch	grapes, onions (green), radishes, etc.
cup(ful)	milk, sugar, crushed nuts, etc.
cut	meat, fish.
dash	salt, pepper, spice, etc.
head	lettuce, cauliflower, cabbage, etc.
piece	meat, bread, fish, vegetable, fruit.
pinch	salt, pepper, spice, etc.
spoon(ful)	salt, pepper, spice, sugar, vinegar, etc.

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Exercise(s):

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