COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
English nouns are often described as "countable" or "uncountable".
- COUNTABLE NOUNS :
Countable nouns are easy to recognize.
They are things that we can count.
Some more countable nouns:
pen, cat, animal, man, person, bottle, box, litre, coin, note, dollar , cup, plate, fork , table, chair, suitcase, bag
pen, cat, animal, man, person, bottle, box, litre, coin, note, dollar , cup, plate, fork , table, chair, suitcase, bag
Can be singular or plural :
My dog is playing.
My dogs are hungry.
My dogs are hungry.
A dog is an animal.
When a countable noun is singular, we must use a word like: a/the/my/this.
Where is my bottle? (not Where is bottle?)
We can use some and any too with countable nouns, and a few and many.
- UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS :
We can't "count" them. For example: milk. We can't count milk, we only can count bottles of milk, litres, but not milk itself.
Some more uncountable nouns:
music, art, love, happiness, advice, information, news , furniture, luggage, rice, sugar, butter, water , electricity, gas, power, money, currency
We usually treat uncountable nouns as singular. We use a singular verb.
For example:
- This news is very important.
We don't usually use the indefinite article a/an with uncountable nouns. We cannot say "an information" or "a music". But we can say a something of:
- a piece of news
We can use some and any.
- I've got some money.
- Have you got any rice?
And we can use too a little and much.
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