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Activity C2.1: (1) refers to types of beer, while (2) refers to units (bottles or glasses).
There are a number of other nouns referring to food and drinks that behave like this.
See C2.2 and C2.3 for more nouns which can behave in these ways.
Activity C2.2: The answer is: it is perfectly possible – because the two noun phrases
refer to two different things – one count and one noncount (and also because
a little
has two interpretations). This is how the two interpretations work:
a) GRAMMAR: DETERMINER NONCOUNT NOUN
(
They played )
a little
football . . .
MEANING: a small amount of the game
b) GRAMMAR:
DETERMINER ADJECTIVE
COUNT NOUN
(
. . . with)
a
little
football.
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