Unit 2.3-Countable & Uncountable nouns / Much & Many/ Some & Any

Nouns
  • Proper Nouns: denote the name of a person, an animal, place or thing. (written with a capital letter)

  • Common nouns can be divided into:  Countable & Uncountable 
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Nouns
  • Proper Nouns: denote the name of a person, an animal, place or thing. (written with a capital letter)

  • Common nouns can be divided into:  Countable & Uncountable 

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Countable Nouns
Countable nouns can be counted.
Can be used in the plural.

-> table  -> tables
-> girl      -> girls
-> chair  -> chairs
Uncountable Nouns
Uncountable nouns can't be counted.

-> music
-> luggage
-> milk
-> rice

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Countable Nouns
  • The names of individual things, which can be counted.                                        ( a factory, a machine, a computer)
  • Units of measurement (a meter, a kilo, a gallon)
  • individual parts of a mass ( a piece of advice, a sheet of paper).

  • Countable nouns have a singular and a plural form.
  • We can use numbers and 'a/an' with countable nouns.
  • They take determiners such as: many, these, those & several.

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Uncountable Nouns
  • Uncountable nouns  are the names of materials, liquids, abstract qualities and collections that cannot be counted.
  • They have only one form.
  • They do not have a plural form.
  • We cannot use numbers with uncountable nouns and they usually cannot take 'a/an'.
  • have words like much, little before them.
  • Take the singular form of the verb.

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Some uncountable nouns:
  • money
  • baggage
  • news
  • advice
  • equipment
  • accommodation
  • information
  • water
Some countable nouns:
  • bottle
  • duty free gifts
  • days
  • suitcase
  • store
  • reservation
  • room
  • lounge

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How to make the plural.
  • The plural of English nouns is regularly formed by adding -s:
        book -books

  • The plural is formed by adding -es when the noun ends in a hissing sound: bus-buses, fish-fishes, ditch-ditches

  • After -e only -s is added: bridge- bridges, change-changes

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Plural of nouns ending in -y
When the noun ends in a consonant +y, the y changes into ie:
spy-spies
penny-pennies
party - parties

But: boy-boys
-> ends in a vowel + y!


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Plural of nouns ending in -o
When the noun ends in a consonant + o, the plural is formed by adding -es:
hero-heroes, potato-potatoes, tomato-tomatoes

But: some nouns only add -s:
piano-pianos, kilo-kilos, photo-photos, memo-memos, euro-euros

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Plural of nouns ending in -f/fe
-f/fe changes to -ves
calf-calves           life-lives
half-halves          wife-wives
self-selves           leaf- leaves
shelf-shelves     thief- thieves 
knife- knives      loaf-loaves

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Irregular plurals
-vowel change:
  • man-men
  • woman-women 
  • person - people
  • foot-feet
  • tooth-teeth
  • louse-lice 
  • mouse-mice
Irregular plurals
ending in -en:
  • child-children
  • ox-oxen

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Singular & Plural
  • Grammatically singular nouns take a singular verb.
  • Grammatically plural nouns take a plural verb.

Examples:
The information (<-gram. singular noun) is free for access.
The personnel (<- gram. plural noun) are expected to have good contacts in the industry.

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Some, Any, Much & Many
All these words tell us about quantity.

Some means: a number of / an amount of
Any is mostly used in negative sentences and in questions.
Much and many mean: a large quantity/ number of something.

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Some & Any
Some
Any
-Affirmative sentences (+)
- Countable nouns (plural)
- Uncountable nouns

-Questions (?)
-Negative sentences (-)
-Uncountable nouns
-Plural nouns
I need some new clothes. (+)
Do you have any coffee? (?)
I do not have any books about Accounting. (-)

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Much & Many
Much
Many
Used with singular uncountable nouns
Used with plural countable nouns
How many cups of tea do you drink in the morning?
We have much work to do.

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