English Grammar

Cloth and Clothes

Cloth is the material used for making clothes. Examples are wool, cotton, silk etc. Clothes means garments - things you wear on your body.

• Her clothes are all made of expensive cloth.
  
• Woolen clothes are the best in summer.
  

Clothes has no singular. We say an article/ a piece of clothing, but not a cloth.

• I must buy a piece of clothing. I have nothing to wear.
  

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