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& Quarrtifiers

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

:Nituns
bottle
CD
chair
computer
invitation

bread
cheese
fish

food
meat

knife

milk

notebook

money
spaghetti

Programme
sandwich
woman

tea

water

Nouns that we can count and that we can use in the plural are called countable nouns.
When the subject of a sentence is in the plural, the verb must also be in the plural.
There are three secretories in the office.
They hove got flve dogs.

Nouns that we cannot count and that do not have plurals are called uncountable nouns.
We do not use a and an with uncountable nouns. When the subje'ct of a sentence is an
uncountable noun, the verb must be in the singular.
The food wos delicious.
The bread is fresh.

We can use other words with uncountable nouns so that we know how much we have, such
as o bottle of (wine), o slrce of (bread), o piece of (cheese), o gloss of (milk), o kilo of (butter),
o plote of (spaghetti), etc.

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