COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

Countable Nouns

These are nouns that take plurals and can be counted.

Examples:

1. Egg – eggs One egg, three eggs , ten eggs
2. Potato – Potatoes Twenty potatoes
3. 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:

1. Two butters
2. Ten milks
3. Three breads

Such nouns are known as UNCOUNTABLE or MASS NOUNS

Exercise 8

Rewrite the words below in two columns, COUNTABLE and UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

1. Orange Coffee
2. Furniture tea
3. Water gold
4. Chair team
5. Friend music