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    This document discusses countable and uncountable nouns in English. It provides examples of countable nouns like "cat" and "woman" that can be singular or plural, and uncountable nouns like "rice" and "butter" that do not change form. It explains that countable nouns must be used with words like "a" or "the" when singular but can stand alone when plural, while uncountable nouns are always used alone. The document also lists rules for using numbers and plural forms with countable and uncountable nouns and provides an exercise to identify nouns as countable or uncountable.

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    Unit 7: Food and Drink

    Countable and uncountable nouns

    María Fernanda Peñafiel Cox, Mg.


    Concepts:
     NOUN.- a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify
    any of a class of people, places, or things ( common
    noun ), or to name a particular one of these ( proper
    noun ). Examples:
    Student
    Guayaquil
    Laptops
    Happiness (NOT HAPPY)
    Concepts:
     ADJECTIVE: a word or phrase naming an attribute,
    added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify
    or describe it. Examples:
     Beautiful
     Interesting
     Happy
     awesome
    When a countable noun is plural, we can use it alone:
    •I like oranges.
    •Bottles can break.

    Countable nouns:
     Countable nouns are those that
    refer to something that can be
    counted. They have both singular
    and plural forms (e.g. cat/cats;
    woman/women;
    country/countries).
     When a countable noun is singular,
    we must use a word like
    a/the/my/this with it:
     I want an orange. (not I want
    orange.)
     Where is my bottle? (not Where is
    bottle?)
     When a countable noun is plural,
    we can use it alone:
     I like oranges.
     Bottles can break.
    Uncountable nouns:
     Uncountable nouns are for the things that we cannot
    count with numbers. They may be the names for
    abstract ideas or qualities or for physical objects that
    are too small or too amorphous to be counted (liquids,
    powders, gases, etc.).
     music, art, love, happiness
     advice, information, news
     rice, sugar, butter, water
     electricity, gas, power
     money, currency
    How to count uncountable nouns?

    Piece Cup Bottle

    Spoon Drop Loaf

    Pinch Part Glass


    Grammatical rules

    1. Countable nouns - plural form:

    Example:

     egg → eggs
     bicycle → bicycles
     dress → dresses
    Grammatical rules

    2. Uncountable nouns - NO plural form:

    Example:
    Rice  rices X

    Milk  milks X
    Grammatical rules
    3. You can use “a” or “an” with countable nouns in
    singular:

    Examples:
    an apple
    a house

    It can NOT be used “a” or “an” with uncontable nouns.


    a milk X
    Grammatical rules
    4. You can use numbers in front of countable nouns:

    Examples:
    three apples
    five houses

    It can NOT be used in front of uncontable nouns.


    two rices X
    EXERCISE:
    Are these nouns countable or uncountable?
     Euro ___________
     Spoon ___________
     Sugar ___________
     Strawberry ___________
     Money ___________
     Tea ___________
     House ___________
     Luggage ___________
     Oil ___________
     Earring ___________
    Some / any
     The general rule is that ANY is used for questions and negatives while SOME is
    used for positive. Both may be used with countable and uncountable nouns.
    Do we need any rice?
    No, we don’t need any rice.
    We have some rice in the cupboard.

    SOME may also be used for questions, typically offers and requests, if we think
    the answer will be positive.
    Would you like some wine?
    May I have some more chocolate?
    Thanks!

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