This document discusses countable and uncountable nouns. Countable nouns can be pluralized and take quantifiers like "a" or "many", while uncountable nouns refer to mass substances and qualities and take quantifiers like "much" or "little". Examples are given of common countable nouns like "book" and uncountable nouns like "water". The use of articles and quantifiers with both types of nouns is explained.

1. TYPES
OF
NOUN
PART - 4

2. Countable Noun Uncountable Noun
HOW MANY? HOW MUCH?

3. Countable Noun
● It can be counted using numbers
● Nouns which can take singular ( a dog, a house, a friend ) and
plural form (a few books, lot of oranges ) .
● Thus, countable nouns are individual people, animal, places,
things or ideas that can be counted.
SINGULAR PLURAL
one dog two dogs
one man two men
one idea two ideas

4. List of Countable Nouns :
eggs phone
army flower
apple watermelon
banana pencil
cookies school
bag channel
cup bottle
box car
cherries pizza

5. Words used with countable nouns :
two two girls
every everyday
these these chairs
those those chocolates
a couple of a couple of greetings cards
several several years
thousands thousands of seas
the majority of the majority of students

6. Uncountable
Noun :
They for the
things that
cannot be
counted with
numbers.
They are names
for abstract
ideas / qualities
or for physical
objects that are
too small to be
counted (liquids,
powders or
gases)
They are used
with a singular
verb and do not
have a plural
form.
Eg gases like air, hydrogen,
nitrogen, oxygen, smoke,
steam.
Never use “a” or
“an”.

7. List of Uncountable Noun :
FOOD & DRINK ABSTRACT GENERAL
tea happiness research
oil peace snow
rice information failure
salt travel jewellery
soup wisdom money
water help cotton
ice cream love luggage
cake time content
bread space news

8. How are articles
&
quantifiers ?
useful in countable
and uncountable nouns….

9. When making sentences based on countable and uncountable nouns we use
articles and quantifiers such as :
Articles : a , an , the.
Quantifiers : some, many, much, a little , a few , several.
COUNTABLE
NOUN
a,
an,
the
He ordered a coffee.
This is an umbrella.
Please get the book on the table.
UNCOUNTABLE
NOUN
the The water is very clear.
The food is very tasty.
ARTICLES

10. QUANTIFIERS
{word or phrase used before a noun to indicate the amount or quantity}
Countable noun Uncountable noun Both
many much all
a few a little enough
a number of a bit some
a large number of a large amount of any
a majority of a large quantity of a lot of

11. Sentences with the use of quantifiers based on
both countable and uncountable nouns.
COUNTABLE NOUN UNCOUNTABLE NOUN
How many chairs do we
need?
Students don’t seem to have
much homework these days
Here are a few cats I’ve got a little money.

12. ABSTRACT
NOUNS CAN BE
USED TO
QUANTIFY
UNCOUNTABLE
NOUNS
A piece of advice

13. A knob of butter A pile of money

14. A flash of lightning A blade of grass

15. PRACTICE
EXERCISE
Solve the quiz in order to
understand whether the
following sentences belong
to countable or
uncountable nouns :

16. ● Do you have milk in the house?
○ a
○ any
● There are toy stores in the mall.
○ many
○ much
● I don’t have money?
○ much
○ many

17. Identify whether the
words are countable
or uncountable noun

18. English - Uncountable noun
eraser - Countable noun
furniture - Uncountable noun
coffee - Uncountable noun
raincoats - Countable noun