Countable and uncountable nouns

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

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