There was/were no vege tables for dinner?

[Nonverbis]

My variant is: There was no vege*tables for dinner.

I think it is just an abstraction: you can't count vegetables in your fridge. At least I've never done this in my life. Well, maybe when I bought just a onion, I kneww that it is the only onion in the fridge. But when I bought some onions, I don't care how many onions is in the pocket.

So, what do you think: was or were?

 

[Glizdka]

Vegetables are countable. The biggest clue lies at the end of the word, the -s suffix, showing that it's plural (only countable nouns can be plural).

"There were no vegetables." :tick:
"There [STRIKE]was[/STRIKE] no vegetables." :cross:

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By the way, the thread title and the first line of your post are confusing!

There was/were no vege tables for dinner?

My variant is: There was no vege*tables for dinner.

Do you know vegetables is one word, not two words? We don't put a space in between (or an asterisk for that matter).

Vegetables :tick:
[STRIKE]Vege tables[/STRIKE] :cross:

It's so weird to see "vege tables" that at first glance, I thought you wanted to express the idea of a restaurant having no tables for vegetarians—"vege tables"—or something like that. ;-)

 

[Tdol]

Also, you might want to say something like there were no vegetables to have with dinner as your sentence implies that this was not a vegan dinner.