COUNTABLE NOUS

Are words like car, book, pen. They are names of things
that you can count: You can say one car, two books, tree a car
pens.
They can be singular ( a cat, one pencil) or plural ( two
pencils, a lot of pens).
three pens

We use a / an only before singular countable nouns.

(A/An is bit like one: you can´t say one pencils or one smoke.)

a pencil

UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

Are words like smoke, rice, water, petrol. These are things that you can
´t count you say “smoke”, but not “ one smoke” or “two rices”.
Uncountable nouns are only singular. , and we cannot use a / an with
them.

smoke

We often use an uncountable noun (without a / an) to say something is

made of.
Example: This sweater is made of silk.
 

We can make uncountable nouns countable to express quantity. We add

a unit or a quantity with “OF”
 

A can of coke A bag of flour A box of cereals