(PUC - RS - 2007)COCONUT TREE, COCO PALMA thousand

(PUC - RS - 2007)

COCONUT TREE, COCO PALM

A thousand ⁷years ago, the coconut ⁸tree did not even exist in Tahiti. ¹It was the pioneering Polynesians who ⁹first brought this ²¹plant with them in their migrations. A ²tree of ¹⁰life in every sense of the ¹¹phrase, its nut ¹²supplies water, milk and ³edible pulp; its "heart" is eaten in salads; its ²²trunk serves as ²³framework for Tahitian ²⁴huts, and its palms are ⁴woven as ²⁵roofing.

¹⁵Then, of course, there is the coconut ¹⁶which, when cut in two and dried ¹⁸in the sun, produces oil. ⁵Plait three ⁶blades of grass and ¹³dip ¹⁹into this oil, ¹⁴light... And you have a lamp. A lamp which not ²⁰so very long ago was still used ¹⁷throughout the islands. 

 

Nouns in English can be divided into "countable" or "uncountable" (e.g.: apple X water). In order to indicate some kind of "measurement" in the case of uncountable nouns, another noun is required (e.g.: "glasses" or "liters" of water).

Accordingly, the expression below that is equivalent to the structure "blades of grass" (ref. 6) is