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Countable nouns are easy to recognize. They are things that we can count. For example: "pen". We can count pens. We can have one, two, three or more pens. Here are some more countable nouns:
og, cat, animal, man, person bottle, box, litre coin, note, ollar cup, plate, !or" table, chair, suitcase, bag
A og is an animal.
When a countable noun is singular, we must use a wor li"e a/the/my/this with it:
$ want an orange. %not $ want orange.& Where is my bottle' %not Where is bottle'&
"*eople" is countable. "*eople" is the plural o! "person". We can count people: There is one person here. There are three people here.
Uncountable Nouns
+ncountable nouns are substances, concepts etc that we cannot ivi e into separate elements. We cannot "count" them. For example, we cannot count "mil"". We can count "bottles o! mil"" or "litres o! mil"", but we cannot count "mil"" itsel!. Here are some more uncountable nouns:
music, art, love, happiness a vice, in!ormation, news !urniture, luggage rice, sugar, butter, water electricity, gas, power money, currency
We usually treat uncountable nouns as singular. We use a singular verb. For example:
We o not usually use the in e!inite article a/an with uncountable nouns. We cannot say "an in!ormation" or "a music". (ut we can say a something of:
Here are some more examples o! countable an uncountable nouns: Countable ollar song suitcase Uncountable money music luggage