Food / A1

SORS/sɔːs/

Sauce is a thick liquid you put on food: tomato sauce, pasta sauce, soy sauce. Usually uncountable: some sauce, a lot of sauce — not a sauce unless you mean one type. Soup is a meal you eat with a spoon; sauce goes on other food. Source means where something comes from — same sound for many speakers.

Meaning

A thick liquid you put on food to add flavour.

Examples

• “Would you like some sauce with the pasta?”
• “This sauce is too hot for the children.”
• “Would you like sauce with the rice?”

Good to know

uncountable: some sauce. Contrast: soup. Mix-up: source (same sound).

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