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Uncountable or mass nouns are the names of materials, liquids, abstract

qualities, collections and other things which we do not see as separate


objects. Most uncountable nouns are singular with no plurals. Examples are:
wheat, sand, weather, water, wool, milk

Here is a list of common words which are usually uncountable in English:

accommodation (countable - a place to live)


advice (a piece of advice)
baggage (a piece of baggage; a bag, a case)
bread (a piece of bread; a loaf; a roll)
chess (a game of chess)
chewing gum (a piece of chewing gum)
equipment (a piece of equipment; a tool)
furniture (a piece/article of furniture)
grass (a blade of grass)
information (a piece of information)
knowledge (a fact)
lightning (a flash of lightning)
luck (a bit/stroke of luck)
luggage (a piece of luggage; a bag)
money (a note; a coin; a sum)
news (a piece of news)
poetry (a poem)
thunder (a clap of thunder)
travel (a journey/trip)
work (a job; a piece of work)

More examples:

wood water reading Chinese


cloth milk boating Spanish
ice wine smoking English
plastic beer dancing luggage
wool cake soccer equipment
steel sugar hockey furniture
aluminum rice weather experience
metal meat heat applause
glass cheese sunshine photography
leather flour electricity traffic
porcelain biology harm
hair history publicity
dust mathematics homework
air economics advice
oxygen poetry

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