It's just "sugar," as in "I eat a lot of sugar."
The noun 'sugar' is a non-count noun, a word for a substance. Units of sugar are expressed by amount or measure.Examples: a lot of sugar, a pound of sugar, a cup of sugar, etc.The plural form of the noun 'sugar' is reserved for 'types of' or 'kinds of'.Example: The sugars called for in this recipe are brown and white granulated.
A mass noun can be used without markers, for example:I'll have tea. Tea is better than coffee.This needs sugar. Sugar will perk it up.Rice will be good with this recipe. My mom made this with rice.A mass noun can be used with markers, for example:The tea is bitter.The sugar is gone.The rice boiled over.Since mass nouns, like tea, rice, and sugar are expressed as in terms of measure or form, the noun markers are used for the measure; for example:The pot of tea...A cup of sugar...An ounce of rice...The bottle of oxygen...A roll of aluminum...An ocean of water...Plural forms for some substance nouns are reserved for 'kinds of' or 'types of'; noun markers are used in the same way:The combination of sugars...A selection of rices...An assortment of teas...
The noun 'sugar' is a common, concrete, mass (non-count) noun, a word for a substance, a thing. The plural form for many uncountable nouns for a substance are used for 'types of' or 'kinds of'; for example, 'The recipe calls for two sugars, brown and granulated white.'
The noun sugar is an uncountable noun as a word for a substance (a syrup or granular substance). Units of sugar are expressed as a pound of sugar, a cup of sugar, a bag of sugar, etc.The noun sugar is a count noun as a word for 'types of' or 'kinds of' sugar, for example, The sugars we use are cane, corn, and honey.
No, 'a packet of sugar' is a noun phrase. The noun 'sugar' is a material noun, a word for something that other things are made from.
The noun 'sugar' is a concrete noun, a word for a physical substance.
The noun 'hydrogen' is a mass noun (an uncountable noun) as a word for a substance.
Mass Noun :D
Mass can be a noun or an adjective. As a noun: The mass of a solid. As an adj: Mass production.
Since a noun is the name of a person, place, or thing, then yes, sugar is a common noun.
The mass of the sugar remains the same.
The noun 'electricity' is a mass noun, a word for something that is indivisible into countable units.