Countable and uncountable nouns PDF

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Countable and uncountable nouns * If you find “a”/“an” in front of the word or “s” at the end of a word, this word must be a countable noun. For examples, when you see “a car” or “cars”, the word “car” must be countable.

Countable nouns Uncountable nouns oranges, carrots, onions, bread, lettuce, milk, cheese, rice, pineapples, pears, bananas, beef, oil, garlic, meat, salt, icesweets, noodles, tomatoes, cream, sugar, pork, food, water, mushrooms, grapes, strawberries, chicken(meat), butter, soup, tea, apples, eggs, snacks, potato chips, coffee, money vegetables, cakes, dollars Sometimes countable and sometimes uncountable egg, ice-cream, lettuce, coke, chocolate, chicken, Words used with countable nouns many, a few, few(close to zero), fewer

Words used with uncountable nouns much, a little, little(close to nothing), less

Words used with both countable and uncountable nouns some, a lot of(=lots of) , plenty of, enough, any, more

When we want to count the uncountable nouns, we can put a phrase in front of the word. See the examples below: a bar of chocolate, 2 bars of chocolate, a bottle of milk / juice, three bottles of milk / juice a carton of milk / juice, 5 cartons of milk / juice a bowl of rice, a few bowls of rice * “Milk” and “rice” are uncountable but “carton”, “bottle” and “bowl” are countable. You cannot say 1 milk, 2 milks but you can say “1 bottles”, “two bottles”. If you want to know more, please read “Big Grammar: Book 4”

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