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Stress is on the first syllable.
Can you pass the pepper, please?
Add some pepper to the soup.
I do not like much pepper on my food.
When pepper means the spice, it is usually uncountable and does not normally take a plural form.
Please add a pepper to my soup.
Please add some pepper to my soup.
When pepper means the spice, it is uncountable, so use some rather than a.
Use pepper as an uncountable noun for the spice: some pepper, a little pepper, or salt and pepper.
Which sentence is correct for the spice?
I need a red pepper for dinner.
She cut the pepper into small pieces.
These peppers are fresh and sweet.
When pepper means the vegetable, it is countable: one pepper, two peppers.
I bought three pepper.
I bought three peppers.
Use the plural peppers after a number greater than one.
Use a pepper for one vegetable and peppers for more than one. Color words often come before pepper, such as red pepper or green pepper.
Which sentence is correct?
