Countable Uncountable Nouns Upperintermediate level Countable Nouns Can
Countable Uncountable Nouns Upper-intermediate level
Countable Nouns ‘Can be counted’ A cake – cakes A lady – ladies (but, a boy-boys) A Potato – potatoes (but, a kilo-kilos, a photos, a piano – pianos) A wolf – wolves (but, a cliff – cliffs, a roof – roofs, a hoof – hooves, hoofs, a scarf – scarves, scarfs) A watch – watches A fox – foxes
Countable Nouns Irregular Plurals Man-men Woman-women Child-children Foot-feet Goose-geese Louse-lice Mouse-mice Tooth-teeth Ox-oxen Deer-deer Fish-fish Person – people
Countable Nouns Latin and Greek nouns: Crisis-crises Basis-bases Phenomenon-phenomena Datum-data
Uncountable Nouns ‘Cannot be counted‘ They take a singular verb and are not used with a/an. Can be divided into the following categories:
Uncountable Nouns Mass Nouns • Beer • Blood • Bread • Butter • Water • Milk Subjects of Study • Physics • Economics • Literature • Chemistry
Uncountable Nouns Languages Sports • Chinese • French • Spanish • • Football Hockey Darts Basketball
Uncountable Nouns Diseases • Chickenpox • Measles • Mumps Natural Phenomena • Sunlight • Fog • Gravity • Hail • Snow
Uncountable Nouns Certain Nouns • • • Accommodation Advice Anger Behaviour Education Luck Music Shopping Truth Weather Homework Collective Nouns • • Baggage Cutlery Furniture Jewellery Luggage Money Rubbish
Uncountable • • • A piece of information A piece of advice A bar of chocolate A lump of sugar A game of soccer A rasher of bacon Countable
Singular and Plural Verb Forms
Глагол в ед. ч. используется после: • A sum of money 5 dollars is not a huge sum of money. • Distance Three thousand miles is the distance from here to Montreal.
Глагол в ед. ч. используется также после: Jury Family Team Group Crew Crowd Class Audience Council Army Club Press Government Company But, The company has/have decided to renovate the building.
Глагол в мн. ч. используется после: • • Clothes People Police Stairs Surroundings Outskirts Premises • • Earnings Wages Cattle Poultry
Глагол в мн. ч. используется после: Things with two parts: Trousers Binoculars Shoes Gloves Pyjamas Glasses
Some / Any
A cake – singular countable Some cakes – plural countable Some water – uncountable
• • I possess some money. I don’t possess any money. I possess no money. Do I possess any money? Can I have some money? There is hardly any money left. If you tell anyone, I’ll be angry. Take any of these two chairs!
Much / many
Much / many I haven’t got much time. - uncountable There aren’t many dollars left. – countable Negative sentences
Much / many A lot of, lots of (count. /uncount. ) + Plenty of (count. /uncount. ) A great/good many (count. ) A good/large/great number of (count. ) A good/large/great deal of (uncount. ) A large/small amount/quantity of (uncount. ) So much, too much (uncount. ) +
(A) Few / (a) little
Countable Nouns A few = some (positive) Few = not many (negative) Examples: I have a few friends. I have few friends.
Uncountable Nouns A little = some (positive) Little = not much (negative) Examples: We’ve got a little time. We’ve got little time.
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