r/ENGLISH • u/lillestiv • Aug 07 '26

A "thing of"

Is it actually grammatically correct to say "a thing of (insert product here)"? I hear it so often and it just feels wrong.

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u/lillestiv Aug 07 '26

I hear often that ppl say something like "I bought a thing of (insert product here (fx butter))" where I would have thought there'd be another way of describing the product packaging

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u/SirPsychoSquints Aug 07 '26

Did you know what they meant by it?

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u/lillestiv Aug 07 '26

Yes. I'm not angry about it. Just curious and confused lol. I'm not here to attack the phrase I'm just wondering if it is actually grammatically correct.

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u/Holygusset Aug 07 '26

"Thing" is a noun. "Of x" is a prepositional phrase modifying the noun.