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Content or contents? - Grammar - Cambridge Dictionary Content or contents ? Grammar > Easily confused words > Content or contents? from English Grammar Today Content and contents are nouns. Content (uncountable) Content as a singular noun is uncountable. It means the ideas that are contained in a piece of writing or a film or a speech: This film has adult content ; it is not suitable for children. His speech was very flowery, but it lacked content and was quite superficial. Content can also mean the amount of a particular substance contained in something: These hamburgers have a high fat content ; they’re not good for you. Contents (plural) The contents of a book is the list of chapters or articles or parts that are in the book, with the number of the page they begin on: If you look at the contents , you’ll see there’s a chapter on Japanese folk music. 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Across , over or through ? Advice or advise ? Affect or effect ? All or every ? All or whole ? Allow , permit or let ? Almost or nearly ? Alone , lonely , or lonesome ? Along or alongside ? Already , still or yet ? Also , as well or too ? Alternate(ly) , alternative(ly) Although or though ? Altogether or all together ? Amount of , number of or quantity of ? Any more or anymore ? Anyone , anybody or anything ? Apart from or except for ? Arise or rise ? Around or round ? Arouse or rouse ? As or like ? As , because or since ? As , when or while ? Been or gone ? Begin or start ? Beside or besides ? Between or among ? Born or borne ? Bring , take and fetch Can , could or may ? Classic or classical? Come or go? Consider or regard ? Consist , comprise or compose ? Content or contents? Different from , different to or different than ? Do or make ? Down , downwards or downward? During or for? Each or every ? East or eastern ; north or northern ? Economic or economical ? Efficient or effective ? Elder , eldest or older , oldest ? End or finish ? Especially or specially ? Except or except for ? Expect , hope or wait ? Experience or experiment ? Fall or fall down ? Far or a long way ? Farther , farthest or further , furthest ? Fast , quick or quickly ? Fell or felt ? Female or feminine ; male or masculine ? Finally , at last , lastly or in the end? First , firstly or at first ? Fit or suit ? Following or the following ? For or since ? Forget or leave ? Full or filled ? Fun or funny ? Get or go? Grateful or thankful ? Hear or listen (to) ? High or tall ? Historic or historical ? House or home ? How is …? or What is … like? If or when ? If or whether ? Ill or sick ? Imply or infer ? In the way or on the way ? It’s or its ? Late or lately ? Lay or lie ? Lend or borrow ? Less or fewer ? Look at , see or watch ? Low or short ? Man , mankind or people ? Maybe or may be ? Maybe or perhaps ? Nearest or next ? Never or not … ever? Nice or sympathetic ? No doubt or without doubt ? No or not ? Nowadays , these days or today ? Open or opened ? Opportunity or possibility ? Opposite or in front of ? Other , others , the other or another ? Out or out of ? Permit or permission ? Person , persons or people ? Pick or pick up ? Play or game ? Politics , political , politician or policy ? Price or prize ? Principal or principle ? Quiet or quite ? Raise or rise ? Remember or remind ? Right or rightly ? Rob or steal ? Say or tell ? So that or in order that ? Sometimes or sometime ? Sound or noise ? Speak or talk ? Such or so ? There , their or they’re ? Towards or toward ? Wait or wait for ? Wake , wake up or awaken ? Worth or worthwhile ? A/an and the Determiners ( the , my , some , this ) Determiners and types of noun Determiners: position and order Determiners: typical errors Determiners used as pronouns Every Possession ( John’s car , a friend of mine ) Such This , that , these , those Whole Nouns Nouns: form Nouns and prepositions Nouns: compound nouns Nouns: countable and uncountable Nouns: forming nouns from other words Nouns: singular and plural Accommodation Equipment Furniture Information Luck and lucky News Progress Weather Noun phrases: dependent words Noun phrases: order Noun phrases: uses Noun phrases: noun phrases and verbs Noun phrases: two noun phrases together Pronouns Each other , one another Everyone , everybody , everything , everywhere It Gender No one , nobody , nothing , nowhere One One and one’s Pronouns: personal ( I, me , you , him , it , they , etc.) Pronouns: possessive ( my , mine , your , yours , etc.) Pronouns: reflexive ( myself , themselves , etc.) Pronouns: indefinite (- body , - one , - thing , - where ) Pronouns: one , you , we , they Relative pronouns Questions: interrogative pronouns ( what , who ) Someone , somebody , something , somewhere That A bit All Any Both Either Enough Least , the least , at least Less Little , a little , few , a few Lots , a lot , plenty Many More Most , the most , mostly Much , many , a lot of , lots of : quantifiers No , none and none of Plenty Some Some and any How What When Where Which Who , whom Whose Why Piece words and group words Comparison: nouns ( more money , the most points ) Nouns and gender Reported speech: reporting nouns Age Half Holiday and holidays Mind Opinion Promise Reason Sort , type and kind Thing and stuff View Way Work (noun) Prepositions Prepositional phrases Above After , afterwards Against Among and amongst As At At , in and to (movement) At , on and in (place) At , on and in (time) Below Beneath Beyond By During For For + -ing From In front of In spite of and despite In, into Near and near to Of On , onto Over To Under Until With Within Without Collocation Commands and instructions Commentaries Invitations Offers Requests Greetings and farewells: hello , goodbye , Happy New Year Suggestions Telephoning Warnings Dates Measurements Number Time Geographical places Names and titles: addressing people Nationalities, languages, countries and regions Place names Abroad Away and away from Back Inside Nearby Outside Up Politeness Reported speech Reported speech: direct speech Reported speech: indirect speech Sexist language Pronunciation Intonation Politeness Interjections ( ouch, hooray ) Tags Chunks Ellipsis Headers and tails Hyperbole Vague expressions Downtoners Hedges ( just ) Substitution All right and alright Please and thank you Here and there Just Kind of and sort of Oh So and not with expect , hope , think , etc. So Yes Anyway Discourse markers ( so, right, okay ) In fact Okay , OK Well You know You see British and American English Dialect Double negatives and usage Formal and informal language Newspaper headlines Register Slang Standard and non-standard language Swearing and taboo expressions According to Actual and actually Approximations ( around four o’clock ) At all Else Hear that , see that However , whatever , whichever ,