Count Nouns vs. Non-Count Nouns in English language

Count nouns/Countable Nouns:-

  1. Can be counted as one or more:

Example: Pen, computer, bottle, spoon, desk, cup, television, chair, shoe, finger, flower, camera, stick, balloon, book, table, comb, etc

    2.Take an s to form the plural:

example: pens, computers, bottles, spoons, desks, cups, televisions, chairs, shoes, fingers, flowers, cameras, sticks, balloons, books, tables, combs, etc.

     3. Work with expressions such as (a few, few, many, some, every, each, these, and the number of): 

Example: a few pens, a few computers, many bottles, some spoons, every desk, each cup, these televisions, the number of chairs, a few shoes, a few fingers, many flowers, some cameras, every stick, each balloon, these books, the number of tables, many combs, etc.


      4 .Work with appropriate articles (a, an, or the):

Example:  pen, the computer, a bottle, the spoon, a desk, the cup, a television, the chair, a shoe, the finger, a flower, the camera, a stick, the balloon, a book, the table, a comb, etc.

 Countable Vs Uncountable Nouns

Non-count nouns/Uncountable Nouns:

  1. Cannot be counted. They usually express a group or a type:

Example: Water, wood, ice, air, oxygen, English, Spanish, traffic, furniture, milk, wine, sugar, rice, meat, flour, soccer, sunshine, etc.

  1. Generally cannot be pluralized.

     2.Work both with and without an article (a, an, or the), depending on the context of the sentence.

Example:

Sugar is sweet.

The sunshine is beautiful.

He eats rice.

We watch soccer together.

     3.Work with expressions such as (some, any, enough, this, that, and much).

Example:

We ate some rice and milk.

I hope to see some sunshine today.

This meat is good.

She does not speak much Spanish.

Do you see any traffic on the road?

That wine is very old.

Do NOT work with expressions such as (these, those, every, each, either, or neither).

Computers have resulted in unemployment

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