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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
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Uncountable nouns
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oranges, carrots,
onions, pineapples, pears, bananas, sweets, noodles, tomatoes, mushrooms,
grapes, strawberries, apples, eggs, snacks, potato chips, vegetables, cakes,
dollars
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bread, lettuce,
milk, cheese, rice, beef, oil, garlic, meat, salt, ice-cream, sugar, pork,
food, water, chicken(meat), butter, soup, tea, coffee, money
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Sometimes countable and sometimes uncountable
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egg, ice-cream,
lettuce, coke, chocolate, chicken,
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Words used with countable nouns
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Words used with uncountable nouns
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many, a few, few(close
to zero), fewer
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much, a little,
little(close to nothing), less
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Words used with both countable and uncountable nouns
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some, a lot
of(=lots of) , plenty of, enough, any, more
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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”.
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