{"id":72749,"date":"2019-11-02T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72749"},"modified":"2019-11-02T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T08:54:00","slug":"talking-about-a-limited-quantity-of-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/talking-about-a-limited-quantity-of-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking About A Limited Quantity Of Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To talk about a limited quantity of something we often use the word piece or bit, together with of, before an uncountable noun. Note that bit is informal and usually suggests a small quantity.<\/p>\n<p>The most common expressions of this kind are:<\/p>\n<p>A piece \/ bit of cake \/ bread<br \/>\nA piece \/ bit of paper \/ wood<br \/>\nA piece \/ bit of news \/ information<br \/>\nA piece of advice<br \/>\nA piece of spaghetti<br \/>\nA piece of furniture<br \/>\nA piece of luggage<\/p>\n<p>Other words like bar, blade, drop etc are also used. But note that they are less general and are used before particular nouns. Some common examples are:<\/p>\n<p>A bar of chocolate \/ soap<br \/>\nA blade of grass<br \/>\nA block of ice<br \/>\nA drop of water \/oil<br \/>\nA grain of salt \/ rice \/ sand \/ corn<br \/>\nAn item of clothing \/ furniture<br \/>\nA loaf of bread<br \/>\nA slice of bread \/ cake \/ meat<br \/>\nA lump of sugar \/ coal<br \/>\nA speck of dust<br \/>\nA sheet of paper \/ metal \/ plastic \/ stamps<br \/>\nA stick of chalk<br \/>\nA strip of land \/ water<br \/>\nA suit of clothes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pair is used for many things that normally come in pairs. Examples are:<\/p>\n<p>A pair of shoes \/ socks \/ ear-rings<br \/>\nA pair of glasses \/ binoculars<br \/>\nA pair of trousers \/ jeans<br \/>\nA pair of scissors \/ pliers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To talk about a limited quantity of something we often use the word piece or bit, together with of, before an uncountable noun. Note that bit is informal and usually suggests a small quantity.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1815,1816,1814],"class_list":["post-72749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-a-bit-of","tag-a-pair-of","tag-a-piece-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72750,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749\/revisions\/72750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}