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