The document discusses countable and uncountable nouns and quantifiers used with them. It explains that countable nouns have plural forms and can take numbers and articles, while uncountable nouns only have one form and cannot take numbers or articles. Some nouns can be either countable or uncountable depending on their meaning. The document also provides examples of quantifiers that can be used with plural countables, uncountable nouns, and both, as well as the differences between using "some" and "some of the." It concludes with examples choosing the correct quantifiers in sentences.

1. UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS AND
QUANTIFIERS

2. COUNTABILITY
 They have singular
and plural form.
 You can use numbers
with them.
 You can use the
article a / an with
their singular form.
 They only have one
form.
 They are followed by a
singular verb.
 You can’t use either
numbers or the article
a /an with them.
COUNTABLE NOUNS UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

3. UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
Advice, information, accommodation, homework,
knowledge, money, water, time, health, paper, iron,
weather, traffic, equipment, work…..
A few uncountable nouns end in –s, but they follow
the normal rules for uncountable nouns and have a
singular verb:
News, billiards, politics, ….

4. A bottle of, a grain of rice, an item of furniture,
a box of, a packet of, a bag of, a spoon of sugar,
a can of coke, a jar of mermelade, a round of
applause, ….

5. SOME NOUNS CAN BE COUNTABLE
OR UNCOUNTABLE WITH A CHANGE
OF MEANING
WOOD A WOOD

6. PAPER A PAPER

7. TOAST A TOAST

8. MORE EXAMPLESMORE EXAMPLES
 IRONIRON (metal) / AN IRONAN IRON (domestic appliance)
 BUSINESSBUSINESS (in general) / A BUSINESSA BUSINESS (a
company)
 GOSSIPGOSSIP (talking) / A GOSSIPA GOSSIP (a person)
 HAIRHAIR (all together) / A HAIRA HAIR (a single strand)
 HELPHELP (in general) / A HELPA HELP (a helpful person
or thing)
 WORKWORK (in general) / A WORKA WORK (a work of art/
engineering, …)
 CHOCOLATECHOCOLATE (substance) / A CHOCOLATEA CHOCOLATE (a
box of chocolates)

9. QUANTIFIERS USED TOGETHER WITH …QUANTIFIERS USED TOGETHER WITH …
 Plural Countables:
 (a) few/ fewer
 many, a great many, very many, not many
 several
 a small/ good/ large/ great number of / the majority of
 Uncountables:
 (a/ very) little
 Not much
 A good/ a great deal of
 A small/ a large amount of
 Both (apart from some, any, no):
 A lot of/ lots of/ plenty of
 No … at all
 None of the
 A lack of
 Most

10. What’s the difference?
“I’d like somesome jewellery” / “I’d like some of thesome of the jewellery”
General, we don’t know which/ Specific, a particular set
“There is a littlea little milk left in the fridge”/ “There is littlelittle juice for
both of us”
A small amount or number of / not enough
(*) When few/ little are used with nouns that have negative
meaning (problems, difficulty, ...) the overall meaning becomes
positive:
“There were few problems with the implementation of the new
laws”

11. Choose the correct alternative
Many/Much famous sportspeople get injured for unexpected reasons. For
example, the English footballer Ferdinand managed to injure himself by
watching TV for a great number of/ a great deal of hours with his leg
on a coffee table.
And after the cricketer Chris Lewis shaved his head he spent too many/
much time in the sun and got sunstroke.
But the worst accident occurred in 1913 when the racing driver Camille Jenatzy
took several/ a small amount of friends hunting for boars. They didn’t see no/
any boars, so the group went back to the house and had lots/ too many to
eat and drink. Jenatzy was convinced they would soon have many/ much better
luck and offered much/ alt of money as a bet that they would be shooting in the next
little/ few hours.
After everyone had gone to bed, he crept outside, walked few/ a few metres away
from the house and made a few/ a little sounds like a wild boar to wake up his
friends.
Unfortunately, his friends opened the window and shot him by mistake.