COUNTABLE NOUNS

Anmerkungen:

• COUNTABLE NOUNS: They are easy to recognize,  they are things that we can  COUNT

1. They are easy to recognize, they are things that we can COUNT
2. FOR EXAMPLE COINS, PERSON, BOTTLES..........AND MORE
3. THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF COUNTABLE NOUNS
   1. PLURAL COUNTABLE NOUNS
   2. SINGULAR COUNTABLE NOUNS
   3. AND WE QUANTIFIERS TO USE WITH THE COUNTABLE NOUNS TOO!!
      1. WE USE "MUCH" WITH SINGULAR NOUNS
         1. THERE IS NOT MUCH WORK FOR TODAY
      2. "MANY" ....IS USED WITH "PLURAL NOUNS"
         1. THIS AFB HAS MANY AIRCRAFTS ON RAMP
      3. MUCH AND MANY CAN BE USED AS....
         1. Noun phrases before determiners " HE DIDN´T HAVE MUCH TIME"
         2. Much of can also be used before personal and geographical names "NOT MUCH OF THIS CITY HAS GOOD PLACES"
         3. Much and many can be used without a noun if the meaning is clear " i have worked too much"
4. A noun that has both a singular and a plural form and names something that can be counted because there can be one or more of it, so we have............two basic characteristics
   1. Presented in both ways, the SINGULAR form and the PLURAL form
   2. This kind of noun can be represented by a number