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    Learn Courses Basic level Nouns Countable and uncountable nouns

Nouns - Lesson 4.3

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

(Los nombres contables e incontables)


"A bicycle", "3 bicycles". The word "bicycle" is a countable noun because we can count them and we can form the plural by adding "-s" at the end of the word. However, "water" is an uncountable noun. Continue the lesson below.

Nouns in English can be either countable or uncountable.

Countable Nouns

Countable nouns are those nouns that can be counted.

Examples:

  one [a] pencil
  two cats
  three houses

Uncountable Nouns

Uncountable nouns are those nouns which cannot be counted because they cannot be defined individually, but rather are part of a whole. As such, they are treated as singular (you can not make them plural by adding “-s”).

  salt,   wood,   tea,   wine,   sugar,   bread,   furniture,
  hair,   information,   money,   weather,   time,   rice

However, once we delimit these nouns by placing a countable expression in front of the noun, they become countable.

Examples:

  a gram of salt
  a piece of wood
  two cups of tea
  three glasses of wine

Grammatical Rules

1. Countable nouns have a plural form (regular or irregular):

Examples:

  egg → eggs
  bicycle → bicycles
  dress → dresses

Uncountable nouns do not have a plural form:

  rice
rices
  milk
milks

2. You can use “a” or “an” with countable nouns in singular:

Examples:

  an apple
  a house

We cannot use “a” or “an” with uncountable nouns:

a milk

3. Numbers can be used in front of countable nouns:

Examples:

  three apples
  five houses

Numbers cannot be used in front of uncountable nouns:

two rices
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