accommodation, athletics, advice, anger, baggage, behavior, blood, bread, business, chess, coal, countryside, courage, damage, dirt, education, evidence, food, fruit, furniture, gold, hair,

Uncountable nouns

Uncountable singular:

accommodation, athletics, advice, anger, baggage, behavior, blood, bread, business, chess, coal, countryside, courage, damage, dirt, education, evidence, food, fruit, furniture, gold, hair, happiness, help, homework, housework, information, jewellery, knowledge, laughter, luck, luggage, meat, money, music, news, pyjamas, rubbish, seaside, shopping, soap, spaghetti, traffic, trouble, water, weather, work, writing, etc.

nouns for types of meat are also uncountable singular (beef, mutton, pork, chicken)

Uncountable plural:

clothes, contents, glasses, odds, ends, greens, customs, goods, shorts, trousers, jeans, scissors, tights, pants, scales, binoculars, spectacles, cattle, congratulations, earnings, outskirts, people, police, stairs, etc.

Many uncountable nouns can be made countable by means of partivities;

a piece of cake/information/advice/furniture

a glass/bottle of water

a jar of jam

a rasher of bacon

a box of chocolates

a packet of biscuits/tea

a slice/loaf of bread

a pot of yoghurt

a pot/cup of tea

a kilo/pound of meat

a bottle of vinegar

a tube of toothpaste

a bar of chocolate/soap

a bit/piece of chalk

an ice cube

a lump of sugar

a sheet of paper

a pair of trousers

a game of soccer

an item/ a piece of news

a can of Coke

a carton of milk

a block of wood

Check yourself

Ex 1. Fill in: is or are.

1. Where …your trousers?
2. Could you tell me where the scissors …?
3. Tonight, there ….athletics on TV.
4. Money….easy to spend and difficult to save.
5. Gloves….worn in cold winter.
6. This student’s knowledge …amazing.
7. Love….the reason for much happiness in the world.
8. This bread…stale.
9. Your pyjamas …on the bed.
10. My luggage …too heavy to carry.
11. My advice to you….to stay in bed.
12. The glasses …in the cupboard.
13. My mum’s hair….really long.
14. Our bathroom scales…quite accurate.
15. This work….too hard for me.
16. People….with the new tax system.

Ex 2. Countable or uncountable?

Sugar, bird, pen, transport, housework, ball, soap, bridge, water, news, house, luggage, boy, fruit, chess, food, dog, furniture, weather, sausage

Ex. 3 Make the following uncountable nouns plural as in example:

1. ice – two ice cubes
2. toast – two…
3. soap – two….
4. tea – two…
5. bacon – three…
6. water – two..
7. advice – three…
8. sugar – two..
9. yoghurt – two …
10. wood – three…
11. news – two …
12. jam – two…
13. beef – three…
14. paper – two…
15. hockey – two…
16. chocolate – three…
17. spectacles – two…
18. toothpaste – three…
19. information – two …

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