Countable and uncountable nouns

* If you find a/an in front of the word or s at the end of a word,

this word must be a countable noun. For examples, when you see a car
or cars, the word car must be countable.

Countable nouns Uncountable nouns

oranges, carrots, onions, bread, lettuce, milk, cheese, rice,
pineapples, pears, bananas, beef, oil, garlic, meat, salt, ice-
sweets, noodles, tomatoes, cream, sugar, pork, food, water,
mushrooms, grapes, strawberries, chicken(meat), butter, soup, tea,
apples, eggs, snacks, potato chips, coffee, money
vegetables, cakes, dollars
Sometimes countable and sometimes uncountable
egg, ice-cream, lettuce, coke, chocolate, chicken,

Words used with countable nouns Words used with uncountable

nouns
many, a few, few(close to zero), much, a little, little(close to
fewer nothing), less

Words used with both countable and uncountable nouns

some, a lot of(=lots of) , plenty of, enough, any, more

When we want to count the uncountable nouns, we can put a

phrase in front of the word. See the examples below:
a bar of chocolate, 2 bars of chocolate,
a bottle of milk / juice, three bottles of milk / juice
a carton of milk / juice, 5 cartons of milk / juice
a bowl of rice, a few bowls of rice

* Milk and rice are uncountable but carton, bottle and

bowl are countable. You cannot say 1 milk, 2 milks but you
can say 1 bottles, two bottles.

If you want to know more, please read Big Grammar: Book 4

Unit 1 and Unit 8