This document discusses countable and uncountable nouns. It provides examples of countable nouns that have both singular and plural forms, such as apple-apples, and uncountable nouns that only have a singular form like money or water. It also discusses using a/an with countable nouns and some/any with countable and uncountable nouns. The document explains how to use how many with countable nouns and how much with uncountable nouns. It includes exercises to practice these concepts.

2. 
Countable nouns
 Countable nouns are nouns which we can count and
they have singular and plural form
 Example:
orange – oranges
egg- eggs
tomato- tomatoes
apple – apples

3. 
 Uncountable nouns are words which we cannot
counted, they only have a singular form and they do
not have plural forms.
 Example: money
water
music
information
Uncountable nouns

4. 
 We use A with countable nouns: a pear, a peach, a
tomato, a sofa.
 We use AN when the words starts with a vowel: an
orange, an umbrella.
 We use SOME with countable and uncountable nouns (
without specifying the exact number)in affirmative
sentences: some milk, some potatoes, some sugar, some
books.
 We use ANY with countable and uncountable nouns in
negative and interrogative sentences: any coffee, any
chairs, any furniture
A, an, some and any

5. 
How much and how
many
 If we talked about
uncountable nouns we
use “how much”
 If you want to express
countable nouns you
use “how many”
 Tip: People is
accountant, since it is
the plural of person
(person): one person,
two people, three
people, etc.

6. 
 Cheese
uncountable
a piece of cheese
there is some cheese
Examples

7. 
 uncountable
there is some water
A bottle of water or two bottles of water
there aren’t any bottle of water
water

8. 
 Countable
A sausage
theres is a sausage
there are some sausages
Sausage

9. 
 Countable
a sofa
two sofas
there aren’t any sofas
some sofas
Sofa

10. 
 How many cups of coffee do you drink a day?
 How many pants did you buy in the last sale?
 How many pictures did you take last summer?
 How much coffee do you drink in the morning?
 How much wine did France produce last year?
 How much work do you have?
Questions

11. 
 Write C for countable and U for uncountable
Time __ oil__
Hair __ bread___
Apples __ book___
Rice___ salt___
Honey___ fingers___
Cars___
Orange___
Exercises

12.  Fill the blank with a, an, any and some
It is _____ dog
linda doesn’t have ____ pet
there are ____ cars in the parking lot
there is ____ apple on the desk
I bought _____ bottle of water
jake always eats _____ cheese at night

13. 
 __________ cheese do you buy?
 ___________ books are there in your bag?
 ___________films did Tom see last week?
 ___________meat are you going to buy?
 ___________friends does Linda have?
Choose How much or How many

14. 
 www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.a
sp?id=3246
 es.slideshare.net/begonya297/countable-and-
uncountable-nouns-presentation
References