Transcript Countable or Uncountable? CEP 811 Jinny KimHan

Countable or
Uncountable?
CEP 811
Jinny KimHan
Count Noun
The main difference between count and noncount nouns is
whether or not the things they refer to can be counted.
-A count noun is a noun that has both a singular and
plural form.
-Count nouns refer to things that can be divided up into
smaller units which are separate and distinct from one
another.
-Count nouns can be pluralized by adding a final -s to the
nouns
-Count nouns usually refer to what can individually be seen or
heard: table chair finger bottle crayon pencil. child, etc…
Noncount Noun
– Noncount nouns refer to things that cannot be counted
because they are regarded as wholes which cannot be
divided into parts.
– Noncount nouns cannot be not pluralized at all
– They often refer to abstractions and occasionally have a
collective meaning: anger, warmth, leisure, education,
courage, weather , rice, equipment, advice, bread, etc...
Click Count Nouns Only!
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Air
House
Furniture
Cash
Lesson
Computer
Electricity
Religion
Toe
Improvement
Sorry!
• Some abstract nouns can be either
a condition or process and can’t
count. For example, ambition,
analysis, basis, change, conflict,
death, difficulty, divorce, failure,
meaning, pain, sound, etc..
Congratulation!
You are absolutely right!
The noun you chose can be counted.
That means that there can be more
than one of them.
Sorry~ Try Again!!
• If the noun that you are talking
about is made up of small particles
(like sugar and rice) or is a liquid (like
water or milk), or something that has
no shape or size of its own, then you
cannot count it easily.
Oops~ Try Again!
• If you are talking about a noun that
names a thing, or idea that cannot be
seen, touched or measured, it is
called an abstract noun. Usually,
these nouns don't take a noun
marker.
Try Again!
• Even though it is easy to count money, it is a noncount noun! WHY?
• One of the non-count nouns is the category name.
Time, furniture, money and music belong to this
kind of noun.
• Time is a category name. You can count days or
hours or years or months, but you cannot count
time.
• You can count chairs and tables, but you cannot
count furniture
• You can count dollars and pounds and yen, but you
cannot count money.