an.<\/strong> Most nouns are countable.<\/p>\nUnlike countable nouns, uncountable nouns are substances, concepts that we cannot be divided into separate elements. We cannot “count” them. For example, we cannot count milk.<\/em> We can count bottles of milk<\/em>\u00a0or litres of milk<\/em>, but we cannot count milk<\/em>\u00a0itself.<\/p>\nTo learn all kinds of uncountable nouns use the flashcards above. The PDF sheet contains the following items:<\/p>\n
\n- bread<\/li>\n
- butter<\/li>\n
- cheese<\/li>\n
- fruit<\/li>\n
- meat<\/li>\n
- milk<\/li>\n
- rice<\/li>\n
- water<\/li>\n
- ice<\/li>\n
- juice<\/li>\n
- spaghetti<\/li>\n
- wine<\/li>\n
- jam<\/li>\n
- soup<\/li>\n
- sugar<\/li>\n
- tea<\/li>\n
- time<\/li>\n
- education<\/li>\n
- furniture<\/li>\n
- fog<\/li>\n
- blood<\/li>\n
- hair<\/li>\n
- gold<\/li>\n
- cotton<\/li>\n
- clothing<\/li>\n
- luggage<\/li>\n
- jewelry<\/li>\n
- money<\/li>\n
- love<\/li>\n
- music<\/li>\n
- snow<\/li>\n
- travel<\/li>\n
- grass<\/li>\n
- news<\/li>\n
- luck<\/li>\n
- work<\/li>\n
- wood<\/li>\n
- traffic<\/li>\n
- sand<\/li>\n
- space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
As you can see from the list above, uncountable nouns mainly comprise food, drinks, sustances, abstract things, collective nouns.<\/p>\n
Here are some rules<\/strong> you should keep in mind while using uncountable nouns:<\/p>\n\n- We usually treat uncountable nouns as singular.<\/strong> We use a singular verb. For example:\u00a0Your luggage\u00a0looks<\/strong>\u00a0heavy<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- We do not usually use the indefinite article\u00a0a\/an<\/strong>\u00a0with uncountable nouns. We cannot say “an information” or “a music”. But we can say\u00a0a “something” of [uncountable noun]<\/strong>:\u00a0a piece of<\/strong>\u00a0news,\u00a0a bottle of<\/strong>\u00a0water.<\/em><\/li>\n
- We can use some<\/strong> and any<\/strong> with uncountable nouns:
\nI’ve got some money.<\/em>
\nHave you got any rice?<\/em><\/li>\n- We can use a little<\/strong> and much<\/strong> with uncountable nouns:
\nI’ve got a little money.<\/em>
\nI haven’t got much rice.<\/em><\/li>\n- Sometimes, the same noun can be countable and uncountable, often with a change of meaning:
\n<\/strong>There are two hairs in my coffee! <\/em>
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