Countability Determiners Countable nouns l l l Countable
Countability, Determiners
Countable nouns l l l Countable nouns can be singular or plural: My dog is playing. / My dogs are hungry. We can use the indefinite article a/an and the definite article the with countable nouns: A dog is an animal. I ate the cherry yesterday.
Some/any l l l l We can use some/any and few/many with countable nouns: I've got some dollars. (+) I haven’t got any apples. (-) Have you got any pens? (? ) We can use a few and many with countable nouns: I've got a few dollars. I haven't got many pens.
Uncountable nouns l l Uncountable nouns are substances, concepts etc that we cannot divide into separate elements. We usually treat uncountable nouns as singular. We use a singular verb. For example: This news is very important. Your luggage looks heavy.
l a piece of news, a bottle of water, a loaf of bread etc. l We can use some/any and little/much with uncountable nouns: I've got some money. Have you got any rice? (? ) I've got a little money. (+) I haven't got much rice. (-) l l
Determiners are words which come at the beginning of the noun phrase. They can be: l Predeterminers: twice, double, half, both, all l Central determiners: the, a, my, these, that l Postdeterminers: next, last, previous, two, several l
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