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    This document summarizes key points about countable and uncountable nouns in English: - Uncountable nouns like food, drink, materials and abstract concepts cannot be counted and always take a singular verb. Common uncountable nouns include meat, fish, cheese, bread, water, wood, sand, iron, peace, beauty and freedom. - Expressions are used to indicate quantity with uncountables like "a bar of chocolate", "a cup of tea", and "a glass of water". - Articles like "a/an", "some", "any", and quantifiers such as "much", "many", "a lot of", "little" are used

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    This document summarizes key points about countable and uncountable nouns in English: - Uncountable nouns like food, drink, materials and abstract concepts cannot be counted and always take a singular verb. Common uncountable nouns include meat, fish, cheese, bread, water, wood, sand, iron, peace, beauty and freedom. - Expressions are used to indicate quantity with uncountables like "a bar of chocolate", "a cup of tea", and "a glass of water". - Articles like "a/an", "some", "any", and quantifiers such as "much", "many", "a lot of", "little" are used

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    This document summarizes key points about countable and uncountable nouns in English: - Uncountable nouns like food, drink, materials and abstract concepts cannot be counted and always take a singular verb. Common uncountable nouns include meat, fish, cheese, bread, water, wood, sand, iron, peace, beauty and freedom. - Expressions are used to indicate quantity with uncountables like "a bar of chocolate", "a cup of tea", and "a glass of water". - Articles like "a/an", "some", "any", and quantifiers such as "much", "many", "a lot of", "little" are used

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    UNIT 1

    SUSTANTIVOS CONTABLES E INCONTABLES:


    - Los sustantivos incontables no se pueden contar, no tienen por lo tanto forma
    plural y se conjugan siempre en el 3ª persona singular.
    - Tipos de comida y bebida: meat/fish/cheese/bread/water…
    - Materiales: Wood/sand/iron
    - Sustantivos abstractos: peace/beauty/freedom
    - Advice/ news/ furniture/ traffic / rubbish/ weather/ knowledge

    Expresiones para expresar cantidad con sustantivos incontables:

    a bar of chocolate a lump of sugar

    a carton of milk a can of coke

    a cup of tea a tin of tuna

    a glass of water a kilo of fruit

    a loaf of bread a slice of pizza

    a piece of advice a litre/ a bottle of wine

    a sheet of paper an item of furniture

     A piece of advice

    A + sonido consonántico/ an + sonido vocálico:


    An hour/ honor/ honest/ heir/heritage
    A university/ unique/ useful/ uniform/ European

     a/ an  sustantivos singulares contables: a book


     some  plurales e incontables (+): some books/ some milk
     any  plurales e incontables (-) (?): any books/ any milk * en oraciones
    afirmativas con el significado ‘cualquier’: What present do you want for your
    birthday? ‘Any present. I don’t mind.’
     some  con peticiones y ofrecimientos (?): can/ could/ would
     how much  cantidad con incontables (también para preguntar el precio)
     how many  cantidad con plurales
     a lot (of) / lots of  ‘mucho’ (+): a lot of books/ a lot of milk
     many  ‘mucho’ (pl.) (-) (?): many books
     much  ‘mucho’, incontables (-) (?): much milk
     few  ‘poco’ (pl.) few  no suficiente / a few = some (varios)
     little  ‘poco’, incontables little  no suficiente / a little = some

    • Genitivo sajón: ‘s (people or animals) / of (things, ideas):


    - Tom’s computer doesn’t work.
    - I don’t remember the name of the book.
    - What is the name of the man who lent us the money? (oración larga
    con ‘of’)

    - Expresiones/ periodos de tiempo: ‘s


    - Have you still got yesterday’s newspaper?

    - Next week’s meeting has been cancelled.

    - Today’s lesson / Tomorrow’s party/ This evening’s match /


    Monday’s television series.

    - I’ve got a week’s holiday.

    - I live near the station. It’s only 10 minutes’ walk.

    - ‘of’ cuando después del poseedor aparece una oración de relativo


    introducida por ‘who’:

    - The parents of the girl who are teachers.

    - sin ‘of’ y sin ‘s cuando aparece sustantivo como adjetivo:

    - mountain bike/ horse race/ love story/ book shop/ jazz concert

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