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Countable and uncountable nouns.

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As the name says, countable nouns will be those that can be counted.

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That you can say two, three, four, you can put before, no?

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Or you can say a, whatever.

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And the uncountable nouns are the ones that cannot be counted.

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Okay?

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So, some characteristics about countable nouns is that they have a singular and plural form.

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Example, tree, trees.

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and that they can use a singular or plural verb.

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Example, the book is old.

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The books are old.

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Okay, is, are, is is for singular and are is for plural.

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Whereas uncountable nouns have only one form.

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They have no plural.

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Example, batter.

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You cannot say batters.

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okay and they always use a singular verb

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sugar is sweet you don't say sugar are sweet

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sugar is sweet. Some more characteristics is that they cannot

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use a, an or a number before the noun

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so you cannot say for example a butter

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two butters, three butters

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no example that you have you cannot say a rice

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or three rice. Bread, you cannot say a bread or two bread. You can say two pieces of bread,

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two slices of bread, but you need another word to be able to count what you are having.

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But as such, they are uncountable nouns. Okay, uncountable nouns are often abstract ideas

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such as love freedom education made of smaller parts such as the ones that we have seen rice

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sugar flour some food such as bread cheese chocolate the same you cannot say a give me

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three cheese no give me three pieces of cheese or give me three uh whatever of cheese but you

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need something in between. Liquids and gases, water, milk, rain. Of course you cannot say

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a water or two water. You can of course say a bottle of water or three bottles of water.

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But to be able to be counted they need somewhere to put it in. Materials such as wood, glass,

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Cotton and for example other

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Uncountables will be furniture advice work news

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information luggage and money

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Okay, and well that's all about