Countable Nouns
These are nouns that take plurals and can be counted.
Examples:
Egg – eggs One egg, three eggs , ten eggs
Potato – Potatoes Twenty potatoes
Onion – Onions Two hundred onions
Such nouns are known as COUNTABLE or COUNT NOUNS
Uncountable Nouns
These are nouns that do not take plurals and cannot be counted.
Examples: salt, butter, cooking fat, milk, bread, jam We do not say:
Two butters*
Ten milks*
Three breads*
Such nouns are known as UNCOUNTABLE or MASS NOUNS
Exercise 8
Rewrite the words below in two columns, COUNTABLE and UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
Orange Coffee
Furniture tea
Water gold
Chair team
Friend music
See also