Countable and uncountable nouns

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A noun can be countable or uncountable. Countable nouns can be "counted", they have a singular and plural form .

For example: A book, two books, three books ..... An apple, two apples, three apples .... Uncountable nouns cannot be counted. This

means they have only a singular form. It also means that they do not take a/an before them.

For example: Water Coffee Wine Rice

Countable nouns are things you can count.

For example:      three pears

    one pear               two pears

Countable NounsThings that we can countdog, cat, animal, man, person bottle, box, litre coin, note, dollar cup, plate, fork table, chair, suitcase, bag

Countable Nouns: Can be used in Singular and Plural.For example:

Singular                Plural

A hat                hats  An apple             apples

Uncountable NounsUncountable nouns are substances, concepts etc

that we cannot divide into separate elements. We cannot "count" them.

we cannot count "milk". We can count "bottles of milk" or "litres of milk", but we cannot count "milk" itself.

music, art, love, happiness advice, information, news furniture, luggage rice, sugar, butter, water electricity, gas, power money, currency

Uncountable nouns are things you see as a whole, things you

can not count.Uncountable nouns has only

one form.For example:

water

jelly

chicken 

NOTE: money is considered as an uncountable noun. Example: I don´t have money.

Susan has much money.