Quantifiers

COUNTABLE AND
UNCOUNTABLE
NOUNS
What are nouns?
Nouns are words used to name people,
animals, things, places and abstract
ideas.
For example:
 Peter
 Cat
 Trousers
 House
 Love
COUNTABLE NOUNS
Countable nouns are nouns that can be
counted. For example, we can easily count a
dog, a bottle, coins , cups and tables.

 dog, cat, animal, man, person

 bottle, box, litre
 coin, note, dollar
 cup, plate, fork
 table, chair, suitcase, bag
 Since we can count these nouns,
they can be used in singular or in plural
forms. For instance:

A bear two bears

One apple some apples

Singular and plurals
Quantifiers
Quantifiers are words used to show
the quantity of nouns in a sentence.
Here you can see some quantifiers that
can be used with countable nouns. For
example:

 A few - some - a lot of

 Lots of - any - many
fridge ?
fridge ?
UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
Nouns that can not be represented in
the plural form, such as water, air,
coffee, tea are some examples of nouns
that cannot be counted.
Nouns that can not be represented by
a number are called uncountable nouns.
It is not possible to say “I need 4 air, or 6
sugar”.
Uncountable nouns are materials, concepts,
information, etc. which are not individual
objects and can not be counted.
information, water, wood, cheese, etc.

Uncountable nouns are always singular:

There is some water in that pitcher.
That is the equipment we use for the project.
 To express the quantity of
uncountable nouns we can use
containers (bottles, bags, cups, spoons,
etc.) or we can also use units of
measurements (kilograms, pounds,
etc.).
ex. I need a bottle of olive oil.
I would like two spoons of rice.
Quantifiers to uncountable nouns

Would you like

some coffee?
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