Sugar Sugar Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. The various types of sugar are derived from different sources. Simple sugars are called monosaccharides and include glucose (also known as dextrose), fructose, and galactose. "Table sugar" or "granulated sugar" refers to sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose. In the body, sucrose is hydrolysed into fructose and glucose. Sucrose is used in prepared foods (e.g. cookies and cakes), is sometimes added to commercially available beverages, and may be used by people as a sweetener for foods (e.g. toast and cereal) and beverages
Proper noun but a few, referring for instance to mountain ranges or groups of islands, are plural (e.g. "Hebrides"). Typically, English proper nouns are not preceded by an article ("the" or "a") or other determiners (not, for instance, "a John", "the Kennedy", or "many Hebrides"). Occasionally, what would otherwise be regarded as a proper noun is used as a common noun, in which case a plural form and a determiner are possible (for instance "the three Kennedys", "the new Gandhi"). Current linguistics makes a distinction between proper nouns and proper names; but this distinction is not universally observed, and sometimes it is