Dry Wood 🌾🌾🌾 (I would appreciate any corrections here)
I noticed that tweeted this photo and it was written below: “we found a dry wood and we use it to kept these leaves.”
The spring came and then the dry wood became green again!
I would like to say that, this piece of dry wood can better speak to us about the maximum use of minimum facilities than any lecture or word.🌱🌱🌱✌️✌️
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Hi Samaneh,
What a great story :-)
The word "wood" has two meanings in English one of them is countable and the other is not.
"Wood" can mean lots of trees together, like a small forest. This kind of wood is countable so we can say, "I walked through A wood".
Or we can use the word "wood" to mean the material that comes from trees. This kind of wood is uncountable so we cannot use "a".
For your sentence you can say, "We found a dry piece of wood" or "We found a dry stick".
Hope that's helpful.
Jill
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Dry Wood 🌾🌾🌾 (I would appreciate any corrections here)
I noticed that [MISSING WORD] tweeted this photo , and it was written below it was: “we found a dry wood and we use it to kept these leaves.”The spring came and then the "dry wood" became green again!
I would like to say that, this piece of dry wood can better speak to us about the maximum use of minimum facilities than any lecture or word.🌱🌱🌱✌️✌️
I didn't change the quotation, which is written in unusual English.
I added quote marks around "dry wood" because technically, it wasn't dry, it was simply without leaves. It had enough green wood inside to contain life when the conditions were better for growing!
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This is a thougth-provoking sentence.
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