Countable or Uncountable?

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Countable or Uncountable?

• CEP 811
• Jinny KimHan

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Count Noun

• The main difference between count and noncount
  nouns is
• whether or not the things they refer to can be
  counted.
• -A count noun is a noun that has both a singular
  and
• plural form.
• -Count nouns refer to things that can be divided
  up into
• smaller units which are separate and distinct
  from one
• another.
• -Count nouns can be pluralized by adding a final
  -s to the
• nouns
• -Count nouns usually refer to what can
  individually be seen or
• heard table chair finger bottle crayon
  pencil. child, etc

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Noncount Noun

• Noncount nouns refer to things that cannot be
  counted
• because they are regarded as wholes which
  cannot be
• divided into parts.
• Noncount nouns cannot be not pluralized at all
• They often refer to abstractions and occasionally
  have a
• collective meaning anger, warmth, leisure,
  education,
• courage, weather , rice, equipment, advice,
  bread, etc...

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Click Count Nouns Only!

• Air
• House
• Furniture
• Cash
• Lesson
• Computer
• Electricity
• Religion
• Toe
• Improvement

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Sorry!

• Some abstract nouns can be either
• a condition or process and cant
• count. For example, ambition,
• analysis, basis, change, conflict,
• death, difficulty, divorce, failure,
• meaning, pain, sound, etc..

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Congratulation!

• You are absolutely right!
• The noun you chose can be counted.
• That means that there can be more
• than one of them.

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Sorry Try Again!!

• If the noun that you are talking about is made up
  of small particles (like sugar and rice) or is a
  liquid (like water or milk), or something that
  has no shape or size of its own, then you cannot
  count it easily.

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Oops Try Again!

• If you are talking about a noun that names a
  thing, or idea that cannot be seen, touched or
  measured, it is called an abstract noun. Usually,
  these nouns don't take a noun marker.

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Try Again!

• Even though it is easy to count money, it is a
  non-count noun! WHY?
• One of the non-count nouns is the category name.
  Time, furniture, money and music belong to this
  kind of noun.
• Time is a category name.  You can count days or
  hours or years or months, but you cannot count
  time. 
• You can count chairs and tables, but you cannot
  count furniture
• You can count dollars and pounds and yen, but you
  cannot count money.