Countable Nouns

Merve
Eldem
• A noun can be countable or uncountable.
Countable nouns can be "counted", they
have a singular and plural form .
• dog, cat, animal, man, person
• bottle, box, litre
• coin, note, dollar
• cup, plate, fork
• table, chair, suitcase, bag
• Countable nouns can be singular or plural:
• My dog is playing.
• My dogs are hungry.
• We can use the indefinite article a/an with
countable nouns:
• A dog is an animal.
• I eat an apple everyday.
• When a countable noun is singular, we must
use a word like a/the/my/this with it:
• I want an orange. (not I want orange.)
• Where is my bottle? (not Where is bottle?)
• When a countable noun is plural, we can use it
alone:
• I like oranges.
• Bottles can break.
• We can use some and any with countable
nouns:
• I've got some dollars.
• Have you got any pens?
• Some dogs can be dangerous.
• I don't use any computers at work.
• We can use a few and many with countable
nouns:
• I've got a few dollars.(it’s enough)
• There are few elephants in England.(it’s not
enough)
• So many elephants have been hunted that
they are an endangered species.
• We can use a lot of with countable nouns.
• There are a lot of books that I couldn’t finish
reading.
 The question form of countable
nouns
• While we are asking for the quantity of
something, we use the question of how many
+ noun+ have/has got or is there/are there?
• How many books have you got in your
library?
• How many tomatoes are there in the fridge?
 The plural forms of the nouns
• We make nouns plural by adding –s to the
nouns like: car-cars, book-books
• If a noun ends with –ch sound, then we add
–es sound to our noun like: match-matches,
watch-watches
• If a noun ends with –f sound, then –f sound
disappears and –ves sound comes like: thief-
thieves, knife-knives.
If our noun ends with –o sound, then it takes –
es sound like: hero-heroes, potato-potatoes
The nouns of which plural forms are irregular
is below:
Foot-feet mouse-mice
Goose-geese this-these
Man-men woman-women
• The possessions which are made up of pairs
are always in the plural form.
Shorts
Trousers
Glasses
Scissors
Shoes