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    The document discusses countable and uncountable nouns. Countable nouns have both a singular and plural form and can take articles like "a" and "an". Uncountable nouns only have a singular form and refer to abstract concepts or substances. Examples are provided of countable nouns taking quantifiers like "many" in their plural form and uncountable nouns taking quantifiers like "much" in their singular form.

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    The document discusses countable and uncountable nouns. Countable nouns have both a singular and plural form and can take articles like "a" and "an". Uncountable nouns only have a singular form and refer to abstract concepts or substances. Examples are provided of countable nouns taking quantifiers like "many" in their plural form and uncountable nouns taking quantifiers like "much" in their singular form.

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    Countable Nouns: Tables, Chairs, Words, Fingers, Bottles, Etc

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    Countable Nouns

    Singular and Plural Forms

    Tables, chairs, words, fingers, bottles, etc.


    ARTICLES INVOLVED: A and AN
    a table, a book
    an apple, an umbrella

    NO ARTICLES, A and AN, INVOLVED


    *a milk, *a coffee
    Uncountable Nouns
    Always Singular Forms
    They often refer to abstractions and occasionally have a collective meaning.
    No Classification Samples
    1 Collective furniture, food, equipment
    2 Fluids water, coffee, tea, milk
    3 Solids Bread, butter, cheese
    3 Gases air, oxygen, smoke, pollution
    4 Particles rice, dust, corn, flour
    5 Abstractions beauty, homework, carelessness
    7 Languages English, Indonesian, Chinese
    8 Field of Studies Chemistry, Psychology
    9 Recreation tennis, soccer, baseball
    10 Activities driving, studying, traveling
    11 Phenomenon weather, snow, heat
    Countable Nouns Uncountable Nouns
    Quantifiers Quantifiers

    Many books much sugar


    A few of books A little sugar
    Few books Little sugar
    Several books Amount of sugar
    A couple of books
    A number of books
    Countable Nouns and Uncountable Nouns

    All of the books/ sugar


    Some books/ sugar
    Most of the books/ sugar
    Enough books/ sugar
    A lot of books/ sugar
    Lots of books/ sugar
    Plenty of books/ sugar
    A lack of books/ sugar
    Change the following nouns into their plural form.

    1.Book ?
    2.Box ?
    3.Discovery ?
    4.Piano ?
    5.Fish ?
    6.Laboratory ?
    7.Man ?
    8.Match ?
    9.Mouse ?
    10.Tooth ?
    11.Child ?

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