Countable and uncountable nouns

Countable nouns

oranges, carrots, onions, pineapples, pears,

Uncountable nouns

bread, lettuce, milk, cheese, rice, beef, oil, garlic,

bananas, sweets, noodles, tomatoes, mushrooms, meat, salt, ice-cream, sugar, pork, food, water,
grapes, strawberries, apples, eggs, snacks, potato chicken(meat), butter, soup, tea, coffee, money
chips, vegetables, cakes, pounds

Sometimes countable and sometimes uncountable

egg, ice-cream, lettuce, coke, chocolate, chicken,

Words used with countable

Words used with uncountable

nouns

many, a few, few(close to zero), fewer

nouns

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

How to count the uncountable nouns

When we want to count the uncountable nouns, you have to put a phrase in front of the
word.
Examples:
a bar of white chocolate, 3 bars of white chocolate
a bottle of milk / juice, four bottles of milk / juice

A jar of coffee / jam, three jars of coffee / jam

a carton of milk / juice, 4 cartons of milk / juice
a bowl of ice, a few bowls of rice
** HINT **
Milk and jam are uncountable, but carton, bottle and jar are countable.
You cannot say 1 milk, 2 milks, but you can say 1 bottles, two jars.