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Om Rashmir.Shehnaz drank a glass of orange juice.Tha |
| Answer» <p>For orange juice, which is usually sold in jugs or cartons and dispensed into smaller portions of uncertain volume, "some" is probably the choice that your test was looking for.</p><p>Unfortunately there are situations where "an" would be perfectly appropriate, for instance in a restaurant or if you were selecting from single serving bottles/cans of juice. To use a more common example:</p><p>Someone asks me to choose which soft drink I would like from a selection of cans, or someone asks me at a bar or restaurant what I would like to drink."I'll haveaCoca Cola."</p><p>Someone is pouring drinks from a 2 liter bottle into glasses and asks what I would like in my glass."I'll havesomeCoca Cola."</p><p>I don't want to invent a grammatical rule on the fly, but it seems as if definitely sized portions (bottles/cans/quantities served by a restaurant) use "a/an" and indefinitely sized portions (poured from a larger container, for instance) use "some</p> <p>A tall glass of orange juice is the very image of ... drink is in trouble: sales of commercial orange juice are ...</p> | |