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My friend Jenny is very fashionable. She always wears
very nice clothes and looks stylish. She even looks great in casual wear. She
could put on a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt and she would look great. When
she shops, she always insists on clothes made from the finest cloth.
Egyptian
cotton and Italian wool are her favorites. When she walks down Fifth Ave in
NYC, everyone notices her and her beautiful clothes.
For today’s free English Lesson, we are going to look
at some confusing vocabulary: cloth, clothes, wear, put on, & take off.
Have a look at the paragraph above and then check the lesson:
Cloth is a
countable noun. The plural form is cloths; 1 cloth, 2 cloths.
Cloth has basically 2 meanings. The first is a small towel or rag. In your
bathroom, you probably have a washcloth that is used for
washing your face. A washcloth is generally a small, square
towel. I have also heard the word face cloth, but think in American
English the word washcloth is more commonly used.
- Get a cloth and
wipe the table please.
- I always use a washcloth in
the morning.
- I have a special cloth to
clean my eyeglasses.
The word cloth also means material. Cloth is
the material or fabric which is used to make clothes:
- His suit is made of fine cloth from
Italy.
- I love this cloth.
I think I will use it for my school project.
- Mood is a famous cloth store
in NYC!
Clothes is an
uncountable noun, it is not the plural form of cloth. Clothes means the items
worn on the body.
- She always wears very
nice clothes and looks stylish.
- Sanae likes to buy clothes at
Anthropology.
- Our company CEO wears
custom made clothes.
Wear is also an
uncountable noun. However, as a noun, wear is only used with a
modifier or descriptive word before it. As a noun, wear is
never used alone. So for example, you can say, “You have nice clothes”
but not, “You have nice wear:”
- They sell formal
wear and suites at that shop on Madison Ave.
- Children’s wear is on the third floor of this department
store.
- I bought tennis wear and a racket, so I am ready to play!