Tomato: whole fruit and food

The idea

Count whole items with a tomato and three tomatoes. For an unspecified amount of food, say some tomato; tomato soup names the ingredient.

Examples

• I sliced a tomato for the sandwich.
• We bought three tomatoes at the market.
• The soup contains tomato and garlic.
• She grows tomatoes on her balcony.
• Please add some tomato to the salad.
• These tomatoes are not ripe yet.

Watch out

The plural spelling is tomatoes, with -es. The food use some tomato does not specify how many whole tomatoes were used.

Try it yourself

1. Choose the plural for whole items. We bought three whole ___. (tomatoes / tomatos)

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   tomatoes

   Use tomatoes to count three whole items.

2. Choose an unspecified amount of the ingredient. Please add ___ to the salad. (some tomato / a tomato soup)

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   some tomato

   Some tomato describes an unspecified amount of the food.

3. Decide what the amount tells us. Does “some tomato” tell us the number of whole tomatoes used? (no / yes)

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   no

   The amount does not establish a number of whole tomatoes.

Use it today

Describe a dish containing tomato and say how many whole tomatoes you would buy.