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some toothpaste vs a toothpaste

Both 'some toothpaste' and 'a toothpaste' are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Some toothpaste' is used when referring to an unspecified amount of toothpaste, while 'a toothpaste' is used when referring to a single tube or container of toothpaste.

Last updated: March 22, 2024 • 3576 views

some toothpaste

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when referring to an unspecified amount of toothpaste.

Use 'some toothpaste' when you want to refer to an unspecified quantity of toothpaste without specifying a particular amount.

Examples:

  • Could you please pass me some toothpaste?
  • I need some toothpaste to brush my teeth.
  • So I may need to borrow some toothpaste.
  • Two years ago, he stole some toothpaste from another inmate.
  • I don't suppose you have some toothpaste I could smear on my teeth.
  • You're about to eat some toothpaste... unless something saves your life, my friend.
  • Tom asked Mary to pick up some toothpaste and some toilet paper at the supermarket.
  • If you put some toothpaste here and beat it with a brush, then hair will come out.
  • I'd give anything for some toothpaste right now.
  • Okay, Lois, I dabbed some toothpaste on the inside of my nose, so...
  • Then we're going to buy some toothpaste, lease a new car, vote "yes" on prop 87.
  • Got an extra bar of soap, some toothpaste and an individual fruit pie.

Alternatives:

  • a bit of toothpaste
  • a little toothpaste
  • a dollop of toothpaste
  • a small amount of toothpaste
  • a dab of toothpaste

a toothpaste

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when referring to a single tube or container of toothpaste.

Use 'a toothpaste' when you want to refer to a specific tube or container of toothpaste.

Examples:

  • I bought a toothpaste at the store.
  • Could you hand me a toothpaste from the bathroom?
  • And this is not a toothpaste commercial!
  • But she was also an actress, and we were both up for the same part in a toothpaste commercial.
  • Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the last serious and very recent case of widely-consumed counterfeited goods - a toothpaste containing antifreeze, sold on the European market and produced in China - brings back into the limelight the problem of combating 'multinational forgery'.
  • There's a party sponsored by a toothpaste company.
  • We went together to a toothpaste party...
  • He worked out of a basement lab in harvard doing research for a toothpaste company.
  • And that's how you get a toothpaste commercial.
  • First one out has to eat a toothpaste?
  • What's a good excuse for bolting out of a toothpaste party?
  • Did you just hit me in my neck with a toothpaste cap?
  • The academics who were overseeing this work thought that that was too frivolous, so we built deadly serious applications like this optics prototyping workbench in which a toothpaste cap on a cardboard box becomes a laser.
  • If you were to take a toothpaste tube and cut the letter T in the opening, and squeeze the toothpaste, it would come out like a letter T.

Alternatives:

  • a tube of toothpaste
  • a container of toothpaste
  • a box of toothpaste
  • a package of toothpaste
  • a bottle of toothpaste

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