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Countable and Uncountable Nouns

The document discusses the differences between countable and uncountable nouns. Countable nouns can be plural or singular and take quantifiers like many or few, while uncountable nouns are only singular and take quantifiers like much or little. The document also provides examples to test distinguishing countable and uncountable nouns.

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Countable and Uncountable Nouns

The document discusses the differences between countable and uncountable nouns. Countable nouns can be plural or singular and take quantifiers like many or few, while uncountable nouns are only singular and take quantifiers like much or little. The document also provides examples to test distinguishing countable and uncountable nouns.

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Countable nouns 

stand for things we can count with numbers


(apples, books, pieces etc).

And uncountable nouns are for things we cannot count


(water, food, money, advice, safety, time, knowledge, love, traffic, etc).

Countable nouns can be used

 in both plural and singular forms


 with phrases many / a lot of / a few / number of

Uncountable nouns are used

 only in the singular form


 only with a singular verb (is, was)
 with phrases much / a lot of / some / amount of / a little

You can never use uncountable nouns with

 a number (five advices - an advice, three furnitures - a furniture). But


you can use a piece of instead (a piece of advice, a piece of furniture)
 phrases many / a few / number of (many foods - a lot of food, a few
knowledges - some knowledge)

Practice. Choose the correct sentence in each pair:

1.  I don't have many time to wait you! 

 I don't have much time to wait you!

2.  Food was really delicious in that restaurant. 

 Food were really delicious in that restaurant.

3.  So many people is wasting their time on playing computer games! 

 So many people are wasting their time on playing computer games!

4.  A big number of people are wasting their time on playing computer


games! 

 A big number of people is wasting their time on playing computer


games!

5.  There are many problems with your plan. 

 There are much problem with your plan.


6.  The old pond was full of fish. 

 The old pond was full of fishes.

7.  Although a lot of people are obsessed with cash, I think that


money are not the most important thing in our life. 

 Although a lot of people are obsessed with cash, I think that


money is not the most important thing in our life.

8.  The number of cars on the roads is increasing. 

 The number of cars on the roads are increasing.

9.  There are a lot of different furnitures being sold. 

 There are a lot of different furniture being sold.

10.  A little electricity is produced by wind power stations. 

 A few electricity is produced by wind power stations.

11.  There are so much animals on our planet! 

 There are so many animals on our planet!

12.  This news rejoiced everyone. 

 These news rejoiced everyone.

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