According to the BBC English leaners website and the English-plus University of Toronto site the following rules apply:

1. We use kind of if the noun is uncountable or a singular countable noun.

What kind of coffee is that? What fruit

are you eating? If the

1. noun is plural then we use kinds of Ex. I

like all kinds of animal. If the object

of the preposition of is singular or uncountable then we kind.

If the object of the sentence is plural use kinds of Also,

if we use quantifiers like all, several, many then we always follow them with kinds of Ex. I like

all kinds of cars. I always try to make sure they are distinctly different.

Finally, according to most dictionaries type of, all have the same meaning = type or variety of I hope that helps.

According to the BBC English leaners website and the English-plus University of Toronto site the following rules apply:

1. We use kind of if the noun is uncountable or a singular countable noun.

What kind of coffee is that? What fruit

are you eating? If the

1. noun is plural then we use kinds of Ex. I

like all kinds of animal. If the object

of the preposition of is singular or uncountable then we kind.

If the object of the sentence is plural use kinds of Also,

if we use quantifiers like all, several, many then we always follow them with kinds of Ex. I like

all kinds of cars. I always try to make sure they are distinctly different.

Finally, according to most dictionaries type of, all have the same meaning = type or variety of I hope that helps.