Countable & Uncountable Nouns

Countable & Uncountable Nouns

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Some vs Any

Quantifiers

A few/little vs few/little

Quantifiers

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Uncountable Nouns

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Countable Nouns

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Countable Nouns

How many are there?

• We use countable nouns for people, places, or things we can count. Count nouns usually have singular and plural forms. (Example: apple - apples)
• Some of them only have a plural form (scissors) and others have the same singular and plural form (fish)

• Singular countable nouns take the article a/an or the. Plural nouns take the articles the or no article. (Example: the apple, an apple - the apples, apples.

Countable Nouns

• A car
• An eraser
• The pineapple
• Pancakes
• A kiwi
• An egg
• The necklace
• Berries

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Uncountable Nouns

How many are there?

• We use uncountable nouns for people, places, or things we CANNOT count.

• They do not have a plural form.

Uncountable Nouns

• soccer
• bread

• water
• fire

• money
• ice

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We use quantifiers when we want to give someone information about the number of something: how much or how many.Quantifier + Noun

Quantifiers

HOW MUCH?

HOW MANY?

• little*
• a little
• a little bit of

• much*
• as much*
• too much
• not much

• several
• few
• a few
• a couple of

• many*
• as many*
• too many
• not many

Uncountable

Countable

A few is used with countable nouns. A little is used with uncountable nouns.They both mean "almost nothing", or "not enough"

a few / a little

A few is used with countable nouns. A little is used with uncountable nouns.They both mean "a small amount", "some"

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Few / little

• any*
• no

• some*
• a lot of
• lots of

Some quantifiers can be used with countable and uncountable nouns:

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Both are used with countable and uncountable nouns. Some means "a few", "a little", "a small amount".Any means "no","zero".

Some vs Any

Containers

How many glasses of beer are there?

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We can use containers for uncountable nouns to make them countable.beer - a glass of beerflour - a bag of flourwater - a bottle of watercereal - a bowl of cereal

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