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COUNTABLE AND
UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

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What is a noun?
• A noun can be a person, an animal, an object, a fruit or vegetable, a place.
Even, it can be something more abstract such as feelings or emotions.
• In English we have two types of nouns: countable nouns and uncountable
nouns.
• Countable nouns are all the things we can count, for example: animals (a
dog, two cats), people, places, some fruits and vegetables. A count noun
has a singular and plural form. Furthermore, we can put a, an or a number
before a count noun.
• Uncountable nouns are the things we cannot count, so, a noncount noun
doesn’t have a plural form, only a singular one.

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Countable nouns: uses of the articles a and an

• The articles a and an come before a sustantive or noun in a singular form.
• The article a is used before the nouns that begin with a consonant:

A ball A bird A girl A house

Exception 1: When the h is not silent: a house, a hospital, a horse.

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Countable nouns: uses of the articles a and an

• The article an is used before the nouns that begin with a letter h or the
vowels:

An umbrella An apple An elephant An orange

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Exceptions: When the h is silent: an hour, an honor.
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Uncountable nouns: types
• Group A:

Nouns that have no distinct or separate parts (liquids, gases, materials).

Milk Tea Juice Paper Air
Water Coffee Bread Meat Blood
Electricity Butter Soup Honey Yogurt

• Group B:

Nouns that have parts too small to be counted.

Rice Hair Sand Grass Pepper
Sugar Popcorn Salt Snow Dust

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Uncountable nouns: types
• Group C:

Nouns that are abstractons (feelings and emotions).

Love Fortune Music Work Friendship
Truth Education Intelligence Information Energy
Beauty Knowledge Happiness Fun Help

• Group D:

Some fruits and vegetables are usually considered noncount nouns.

Rice Hair Sand Grass Pepper
Sugar Popcorn Salt Snow Dust

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What’s up there?

The Empire State Building is on Fifth

Avenue in New York City, USA. The whole
building is about 1,453 ft tall, and there
are 103 floors. There are 6,500 windows
and 73 elevators.

There is also a large observation deck

on the 86th floor of the building. It takes
under a minute to ride the elevator from
the 1st floor to the observation deck.

It is estimated that there are 1860 steps

from the ground till the top. Besides that,
there are 1,000 business offices and
more than 21,000 people work there.

What an amazing place!

There is and
There are
There + a Form of Be
• We use there + a form of be to introduce a subject into the
conversation or show that something is available.
• In simple present, we usually use there is and there are to talk about
nouns. It is important to know that we use there is only when we’re
talking about a singular noun. And we use there are when we’re
talking about a plural noun.

There + is/are + singular or plural noun.

Examples Explanation
There is a cat on the roof. We use there is to introduce a singular
There is more information on the web noun, or a noncount noun.
page.
There are some pears in the bag. We use there are to introduce a plural
In my house, there are three lovely dogs. noun.

Is there a bottle of water in the fridge? For yes/no questions, we put be before
Yes, there is. there.
No, there isn’t.
For an affirmative short answer, we use:
Yes, + there + form of be.
Are there two doors in this classroom?
Yes, there are. For a negative short answer, we use:
No, there aren’t. No, + there + form of be + not.
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There’s a snake on my boot.
There are three pencils in the case.
There isn´t problem.
There aren’t comments.
There is no problem.
There are no comments.
There is a cellphone and two dollars in
my pocket.
There are two dollars and a cellphone in
my pocket.
Explanation
We can make a contraction with there is:
there’s. We don’t make a contraction with
there are.
We can make a contraction with there is
and there are when the sentence is
negative: there isn’t and there aren’t.
We use not or no with some expressions
that begin with there + be.
If two nouns follow the expression there,
we use the singular form of be if the first
noun is singular. We use the plural form
of be if the first noun is plural.
Structure of there + be
(singular)
There is a rabbit.

There is not a rabbit.

Is there a rabbit?
Structure of there + be
(plural)
There are four cars.

There are not four cars.

Are there four cars?

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Differences and similiraties
 When to use some and any?
• Some and any have similar uses in the English language, so, it’s important to
know the differences between them and which one is the correct when we
write a sentence.
• Some and any always come in the same position: before the noun and after
any verb.

We use any to:

We use some to:
• Write a negative statements.
• Write an affirmative statement.
I don’t have any pet in my apartment.
I have some pieces of candy in my backpack.
• Make a question.

Do you have any pet in your house?

 When do we use
some? We have some food in the kitchen.

• When we make an affirmative Would you like some milk with your coffee?
statement.
• When we offer something to
someone. Do you want some water?

• When we ask for something to

someone. Can I have some cake?
• When we suggest something
to someone. Can I take some time off work?
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any?
We don’t have any dog or cat.

Do you have any brother or sister? • When we make a negative

statement.
Is there any window in your bedroom? • When we make questions
about possession.
Are there any bilingual students in your class? • When we make questions
about existence.
 Special cases, notes and
exceptions:
• In the question “do you have some water?” we are asking for water to someone.

• You will sometimes see any with a singular count noun. In this case any means
“whichever you want”.

Which topic should I write about? I can write about any topic.

• Don’t use a double negative:

I don’t have any information. (NOT: I don’t have no information.)

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