I was working on a proofreading project recently when I ran across the following mistake:<\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cClick here to review the content of your shopping cart\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Can you spot the error?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The sentence should read, „Click here to review the contents<\/strong> of your shopping cart.“ At the same time one would not say, „His blog regularly features new\u00a0 <\/p>\n content <\/u><\/strong>v\/s contents \u2013 getting it right:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Content<\/em> is a word that has a range of meanings in English. It can be a verb (mit Betonung auf der 2. Silbe im Sinne von befriedigen<\/em>), an adverb (mit Betonung auf der 2. Silbe im Sinne von zufrieden<\/em>) or a noun (auch mit Betonung auf der 2. Silbe im Sinne von Zufriedenheit<\/em>)\u2014but when it comes to the noun content im Sinne von Inhalt\u00a0<\/strong>(mit Betonung auf der 1. Silbe), things start to get tricky:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Content<\/strong>\u00a0in this sence\u00a0refers to the things that are held or contained in something.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1).\u00a0\u00a0 The noncount<\/em> noun content <\/strong>refers, for example, to the ideas contained in a film, text, speech, etc., or to the physical substance of an object:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 2). \u00a0The count<\/em> noun content<\/strong>, on the other hand, is pluralized as contents<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 and refers to the items physically<\/em> contained within something as in the following examples:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Confusing Content I was working on a proofreading project recently when I ran across the following mistake: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cClick here to review the content of your shopping cart\u201d Can you spot the error? The sentence should read, „Click here to review the contents of your shopping cart.“ At the same time one … Continue reading Content vs. Contents<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[273],"tags":[437807,16064565],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-englisch-lernen","tag-englische-vokabeln","no-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tcontents<\/strong><\/del>.“\u00a0\u00a0So what’s the difference between content<\/em> and contents<\/em>?\u00a0Read on to find out:<\/p>\n\n
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