1. Countable Uncountable Nouns
Upper-intermediate level

2. Countable Nouns ‘Can be counted’ A cake – cakes
A lady – ladies (but, a boy-boys)
A Potato – potatoes (but, a kilo-kilos, a photo-photos, a piano – pianos)
A wolf – wolves (but, a cliff – cliffs, a roof – roofs, a hoof – hooves, hoofs, a scarf – scarves, scarfs)
A watch – watches
A fox – foxes

3. Countable Nouns Irregular Plurals
Man-men
Woman-women
Child-children
Foot-feet
Goose-geese
Louse-lice
Mouse-mice Tooth-teeth Ox-oxen Deer-deer Fish-fish Person – people

4. Countable Nouns Latin and Greek nouns: Crisis-crises Basis-bases
Phenomenon-phenomena
Datum-data

5. Uncountable Nouns
‘Cannot be counted‘
They take a singular verb and are not used with a/an.
Can be divided into the following categories:

6. Uncountable Nouns Mass Nouns Subjects of Study Beer Blood Bread Butter
Water
Milk
Physics
Economics
Literature
Chemistry

7. Uncountable Nouns Chinese French Spanish Football Hockey Darts
Languages
Sports
Chinese
French
Spanish
Football
Hockey
Darts
Basketball

8. Uncountable Nouns Chickenpox Measles Mumps Diseases Natural Phenomena
Sunlight
Fog
Gravity
Hail
Snow

9. Uncountable Nouns Certain Nouns Collective Nouns Baggage Cutlery
Accommodation
Advice
Anger
Behaviour
Education
Luck
Music
Shopping
Truth
Weather
Homework
Baggage
Cutlery
Furniture
Jewellery
Luggage
Money
Rubbish

10. Uncountable Countable
A piece of information
A piece of advice
A bar of chocolate
A lump of sugar
A game of soccer
A rasher of bacon

11. Singular and Plural Verb Forms

12. Глагол в ед.ч. используется после:
A sum of money
5 dollars is not a huge sum of money.
Distance
Three thousand miles is the distance from here to Montreal.

13. Глагол в ед.ч. используется также после:
Council
Army
Club
Press
Government
Company
But,
The company has/have decided to renovate the building.
Jury Family Team Group Crew Crowd Class Audience

14. Глагол в мн.ч. используется после:
Clothes
People
Police
Stairs
Surroundings
Outskirts
Premises
Earnings
Wages
Cattle
Poultry

15. Глагол в мн.ч. используется после:
Things with two parts: Trousers Binoculars Shoes Gloves Pyjamas Glasses

16. Some / Any

17. A cake – singular countable Some cakes – plural countable Some water – uncountable

18. I possess some money.
I don’t possess any money.
I possess no money.
Do I possess any money?
Can I have some money?
There is hardly any money left.
If you tell anyone, I’ll be angry.
Take any of these two chairs!

19. Much / many

20. Much / many Negative sentences
I haven’t got much time. - uncountable
There aren’t many dollars left. – countable
Negative sentences

21. Much / many
A lot of, lots of (count./uncount.) + Plenty of (count./uncount.) A great/good many (count.) A good/large/great number of (count.) A good/large/great deal of (uncount.) A large/small amount/quantity of (uncount.) So much, too much (uncount.) +

22. (A) Few / (a) little

23. Countable Nouns
A few = some (positive) Few = not many (negative) Examples: I have a few friends. I have few friends.

24. Uncountable Nouns
A little = some (positive) Little = not much (negative) Examples: We’ve got a little time. We’ve got little time.