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.