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Countable/Uncountable
Nouns
- Countable
- Nouns we can count using numbers
- "I've been to five beaches today!"
- when singular words such as "a', 'the', 'my', and 'this' can be used
- Nouns we can count using numbers
- Uncountable
- nouns we cannot count using numbers
- Usually do not have a plural form
- You can have a "bag full of sand" or be "covered in sand" but
you cannot put a numerical value in relation to sand, unless
talking about individual grains of sand
- Uncountable nouns are usually treated as
singular
- Does not use 'a' or 'an' but uses a "something" of, for
example. "a grain of sand", "a piece of information"
- also called "mass" nouns
- nouns we cannot count using numbers
- Dollar (Countable) Money (Uncountable)
Song (Countable) Music (Uncountable)
Suitcase (Countable) Luggage (uncountable)
Bottle (Countable) Wine (Uncountable)
- Partitive structure
- Pseudo-partitive nouns exist as a
simplified version of the partitive
- "a slice of John's pie" (partitive)
"a slice of pie" (Pseudo-partitive)
- "a slice of John's pie" (partitive)
"a slice of pie" (Pseudo-partitive)
- "Partitive expressions make it possible to count
things expressed by uncountable nouns"
- "bread" is uncountable but a "loaf" of
bread, is countable, or a "slice" of bread
- "bread" is uncountable but a "loaf" of
bread, is countable, or a "slice" of bread
- Pseudo-partitive nouns exist as a
simplified version of the partitive
- a word (other than a pronoun) used to
identify any of a class of people, places,
or things
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