Icecream or Icecreams? :)
My grandma always brought me one of these icecream. It's a summer delight among children but I barely find them these days. It costed 50yen each with no tax at the time. I certainly had a great time and miss those precious memories.
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Icecream or Icecreams? :)
My grandma always brought me one of these ice creams. (As you are introducing three types of ice creams in your picture, it is a countable noun.) They're a summer delight among children but I barely rarely (We use an adverb of frequency "rarely" to mean that something seldom occurs. We use "barely" to describe a quantity that is just enough for a purpose. Example: It rarely snows in winter. (perhaps it only snows once in a few years) / We barely had enough water while travelling in the desert. (we had just enough for survival in the desert.) find them these days. It cost (The past tense of "cost" is still "cost".)50 yen each with no tax in those days. (We can use "in those days" to refer to a period of time in the past.) at the time. I certainly had a great time and miss those precious memories.Mayumi,
"Ice cream" can be both countable and uncountable. If we are referring to it as a food, it is uncountable. If we are referring to the types of ice cream, it becomes countable. This concept is common in food and drinks. For example: "Coffee" as a beverage is uncountable. However, you can say: "May I have three coffees, please?".
Some materials can also be countable and uncountable. "Glass" as a material is uncountable. However, "Glass" as a container is countable. We can say: "Two glasses of water, please."
Hope this helps.
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Ice cream or Ice creams? :)
My grandma always brought me one of these kinds of ice cream. It's They're (<--Use plural form here because there are different kinds of ice cream.) a summer delight among children, but I barely rarely find them these days. It They costed 50 yen each with no tax at the time. I certainly had a great time and miss those precious memories.Hi, Mayumi! We don't usually say "ice creams." Instead, if there are different varieties, we say "different types/kinds of ice cream." This is because ice cream itself cannot be counted individually; they can only be counted by amount.
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Icecream or Icecreams? :)
My grandma always brought me one of these icecreams (or "some of this icecream"). It's a summer delight for children, but I barely (better: "hardly") find them (or "it") these days. It (or "they") costed 50 yen each with no tax at the time. I certainly had a great time and miss those precious memories."Icecream" is uncountable, however we can treat it as countable when we mean a serving or a type of icecream. Informally, "serving" or "type" is understood in context. Great job, keep up the good work! You may want to study the use of "used to" to talk about past habits that are no longer.
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My grandmother always bought me one of these ice creams. They are a summer delight among children, but I barely find them these days. They cost 50 yen each with no tax at the time. I certainly had a great time and miss those precious memories.
I changed "it's" to "they are" because in the second half of the sentence you are using plural form. Most people know what grandma means, but I figured I would change to what you might use in an essay. It's Ice creams because you are comparing 3 different kinds. Great job by the way.
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