Countable and Uncountable Nouns

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COUNTABLE AND

UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
Are these nouns countable or
uncountable?

• Uncountable.
• There is some milk.
coffee

• Uncountable.
• There is some coffee.
• A cup of coffee or two
cups of coffee.
Hamburger

• Countable.
• A burger.
• One or two three
burgers
• There are some
burgers.
Cheese

• Uncountable.
• There is some cheese.
• A piece of cheese.
Icecream.

• Countable.
• There are three
icecreams.
• There are some
icecreams.
Sausage and hot dogs

• Countable.
• A sausage.
• There is a sausage.
• Two sausages.
• There are some
sausages.
• There is a hot dog.
• Two hot dogs.
Biscuit & Cookies

• Countable.
• A biscuit.
• Two biscuits.
• There is a biscuit.
• There are some ginger
biscuits.
• There aren’t any
chocolate biscuits.
Chair.
• Countable.
• A chair.
• There is a chair.
• There are some chairs
in this class.
Sofa

• Countable.
• A sofa.
• Two sofas.
• There is a sofa in my
house.
• There aren’t any sofas
in this class.
Banana
• Countable.
• There is a banana.
• There are some
bananas.
• There are two
bananas.
Strawberry.
• Countable.
• There is a strawberry.
• Three strawberries.
There are three
strawberies.
• There are some
strawberries.
• There isn’t any cream.
Lemon,orange and
tomato.

• All are countable.


• A lemon, an orange a tomato.
• Two or three lemons, oranges and
tomatoes.
• There are some lemons and some
tomatoes and some oranges but there
aren’t any carrots.
A, an, some and any.

• We use A with countable nouns: a pear, a peach, a tomato, a


sofa.
• We use AN when the words starts with a vowel: an orange, an
umbrella.
• We use SOME with countable and uncountable nouns ( without
specifying the exact number)in affirmative sentences: some
milk, some potatoes, some sugar, some books, some cds.
• We use ANY with countable and uncountable nouns in negative
and interrogative sentences: any coffee, any chairs, any
furniture.
Read the following examples.
• There are some tomatoes.
• There are some melons.
• There some cucumbers.
• There are some oranges
• There aren’t any onions.
• There isn’t any milk in the
greengrocer’s.
• There isn’t any sugar in
the greengrocer’s.
Make sentences about the picture using the
following words: pan, fridge, table, kitchen cloth,
spoon, milk, salad, window, oven, girl...

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