It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. In this picture there are "three breads", but they are not loaves because loaves can be cut into pieces, and they are not slices either because they weren't cut with a knife. In Britain, a loaf of bread would generally be anything big enough to be cut into multiple slices of bread , e.
So this is a loaf , and at least the one on the left of this picture is a loaf. The items in the second picture that are small enough to be just 1 - 2 portions, would be rolls.
Buns tend to be sweeter than rolls , although a soft roll containing raisins and currants is often called a currant bun. Normally, bread is an uncountable noun. Having said that, searching Google for "three breads" does give many hits.
The search also revealed a forum discussion here on the subject "How to ask for two 'breads'", which included the following comment:. Sorry, but I have never heard anyone say "2 breads" when 2 loaves is meant. The only time that "breads" could be used, is if different types of bread is meant. For example. I have to buy three breads: a loaf of gluten-free for Rose, two loaves of sour-dough rye for Daisy, and a white loaf for Hyacinth. One can talk of "servings of bread", but the items in the picture would not normally be described to in that way.
The expression "servings of bread" could be used in a restaurant, but its meaning would depend on how the restaurant serves their breads. A serving of bread would be the amount of bread that the restaurant normally serves for one person, such as two slices of bread; one bread roll; a few bread sticks; etc.. You would refer to three rolls as "three servings of bread" only if the restaurant normally served one bread roll per person.
The accepted answer is correct, but I think an answer that is both more general and simpler, is that words are not countable or uncountable, senses are countable or uncountable.
In this case, bread in the sense of the stuff you get when you bake bread-dough, is uncountable. Question about English US. See a translation. Report copyright infringement. The owner of it will not be notified. Only the user who asked this question will see who disagreed with this answer. Read more comments. Partitive Structure with Uncountable Nouns To count or quantify an uncountable noun we use a unit of measurement - a measure word.
We call this structure a partitive structure. We can use the same uncountable noun in different partitive expressions with different meanings. For example, a loaf of bread and a slice of bread are partitive expressions with different meanings. A loaf of bread is what we call a whole unit of bread that we buy from a baker. A slice of bread is what we call a smaller unit of bread after it has been cut from a loaf. Nouns that can be Countable and Uncountable Sometimes, the same noun can be countable and uncountable, often with a change of meaning.
See also this list of nouns that are count and noncount , with example sentences, notes and quizzes. EnglishClub : Learn English : Grammar : Nouns : Countable Nouns : Uncountable Nouns Uncountable Nouns Unlike countable nouns, uncountable nouns are substances, concepts etc that we cannot divide into separate elements.
Here are some more uncountable nouns: music, art, love, happiness advice, information, news furniture, luggage rice, sugar, butter, water electricity, gas, power money, currency We usually treat uncountable nouns as singular. We use a singular verb. Regardless of what word you use in your language for a loaf of bread - the object that can be carried about - "bread" in English is not an object, but a substance. If I take a piece of bread, that is, a piece of the substance called "bread", and I divide it into five or six pieces, each of the pieces is also a piece of bread, that is, a piece of the substance called "bread".
I can divide the pieces even further, and I still have pieces of bread. You cannot do that with an object, for example, a table. If I divide a table into five or six pieces, I do not have many pieces of the substance called "table"! I think I'll have some watermelon. Answer this Question. Money - Countable Or Uncountable Noun? An Helicopter - Why Not A?
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