Greek here, but in this case of Bloc if you intent to return a collection it will be better to use "contents" , other than that Stuart explanation is perfect. Even for a book we say "table of contents". "Content" is used to refer to a single item or the uniform structure or a collection of items as a whole than individual parts. So it depends 100% from the context and your intention of explanation. On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 1:05 PM Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 5:20 PM, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
Hi native english speaker
what is the best content or contents?
Actually I couldn't say off hand. It depends on the context and I can't think of a specific rule. I can only present a few examples.
The contents of the box. The content of the book - but the book has a Table Of Contents.
Probably just best to refer to the experts: "grammar content versus contents"
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/content-or-contents
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/13556/content-or-contents
http://blogg.lnu.se/english-language-blog/blog/maria/content-and-contents/
cheers -ben