HOW MANY / HOW MUCH

(cuantos)

HOW MANY: Lo usamos para sustantivos contables

HOW MUCH: Lo usamos para sustantivos no contables

NOUNS (CONTABLES AND UNCONTABLE)

CONTABLES (Singular and plural)

En la gramática, un sustantivo contable se refiere a algo que se puede contar, algo que
acepta un número y tiene una forma plural.
Ejemplos de sustantivos contables: two girls, three people, twenty-five cats, a million
dollars, two cookies, five bottles, four apples, seven gigabytes, sixteen potatoes, ten
books, etc.

UNCONTABLES (Cannot be count)

Ejemplos de sustantivos incontables: rice, water, meat, money, time, fruit,

bread, air, wine, coffee, tea y mucho más.

CONTABLES INCONTABLES

Cat Energy

Pencil Liquid (tea, juice, water, milk)

House Grains (salt, rice, sugar)

Egg Hair
 Bottle Money

EXAMPLES:

1.

A-How much flour do you need?

b- I need 3 cups.

A-And how many eggs do you need?

2-
a- How much water do you drink every day?
b- I drink about two liters of water every day.

3-
a- How much coffee do you drink?
b- Not much. Just a cup every morning before work.

4-

a-How many friends do you have?

b-I have 20 friends.

5-

a-How many supermarkets are there in your city?

b-There are 9 supermarkets.