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  1. Why does the sales assistant say information, not informations? [Information can never be plural]
  2. What is the difference between some chocolate and some chocolates? [Chocolates are single candies. Some chocolate could be candy bars]
  3. What is the difference between hair and hairs? [Hairs are individual, but hair is hair on the head in general]
  4. Why must you offer people some potatoes if you serve them mashed? [You cannot count the potatoes separately]
  5. Why does the sales assistant talk about liters and kilograms? [To make uncountable things countable]
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1.   The narrator wants to eat an entire fish.That is incorrect. Correct is: Look in the text to find out.

2.   Having terrible hair is worse than hairs on your blouse.That is correct.

3.   Coffee sold as a drink in a cup can be "a coffee".That is correct.

4.   The shop assistant speaks English well.That is correct.

5.   It is never correct to say "a chocolate".That is incorrect. Correct is: Look in the text to find out.