Countable and Uncoutable Nouns

Countable Nouns Individual objects people ideas

They have singular and plural forms. Countable Nouns food feed mouse mice game games

Countable Nouns We normally use a/an before singular countable nouns: an apple a laptop a book

Countable Nouns We can use numbers (two or more) or some before plural countable nouns: five pencils forty students eleven friends

Countable Nouns We use singular or plural verbs with countable nouns. Our English classroom is new My mother’s parents are nice

Uncountable Nouns are things we can not count. food bread patience hair

Uncountable Nouns They have no plural form. chocolate juice milk water

Uncountable Nouns We always use singular verbs with uncountable nouns. Chocolate is delicious The foos is tasted My hair is long

Exception Some nouns can be either countable or uncountable There’s a hair in my soup! My hair is really long

Quantifiers UNCOUNTABLE NOUN PLURAL COUNTABLE NOUN BOTH POSITIVES SENTENCES a little a bit of a few several each every some a lot / lots of plenty of no NEGATIVES SENTENCES much many any a lot / lots of enough For example: I’ve got several problems. There isn’t much milk in the fridge.

Let’s practice STUDENT’S BOOK PAGE 69 EXERCISES 1, 3, 4