Countable and Uncountable nouns

In English grammar, countable nouns are individual people, animals, places,

things, or ideas that can be counted. Uncountable nouns are not individual
objects, so they cannot be counted.

Countable nouns : Anything that can be counted, whether singular – a dog,

a house, a friend, etc. or plural – a few books, lots of oranges, etc. is a
countable noun.

Examples :

1. There are at least twenty Italian restaurants in Little Italy.

2. Your book is on the kitchen table.
3. How many candles are on that birthday cake?
4. There’s a big brown dog running around the neighborhood.

Expressions of quantity used with countable nouns :

Numbers 1,2 3 etc., a few, many, some, a lot of , several, a, an .

Uncountable nouns: Uncountable nouns are for the things that we

cannot count with numbers.

Examples :
1. There is no more water in the pool.
2. I need to find information about the new WWE wrestler.
3. Let’s get rid of the garbage.
4. How much rice do you want?

Expressions of quantity used with uncountable nouns :

Some, a lot of, a little, much, a great deal of.

Some uncountable nouns : tea, sugar, water, air, rice, knowledge,

beauty, anger, fear, love, money, research, furniture.

**Note ** : Uncountable nouns are used with a singular verb. They usually do
not have a plural form. Teacher of English moéyad nassar