Grammar

countable and uncountable noun

Hellow my readers. I'm here not to teach you, but I only want to share with you. We can discuss about this topic together.

In learning English, we have to know about part of speech. Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.

Let's study about noun first. ^_^

A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. Whatever exists, we assume, can be named, and that name is a noun. Noun can be classified in some classification. Now, we will study about countable and uncountable noun. Check this out !!

Can you count it??

                                                  or this ??

 

 This two pictures is the example of uncountable noun. On the other hand,uncountable noun refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count. For example, we cannot count "water". We can count "bottles of water" or "litres of water", but we cannot count "water" itself. Here are some more uncountable nouns:

• music, art, love, happiness
• advice, information, news
• furniture, luggage
• rice, sugar, butter, water
• electricity, gas, power
• money, currency

so,how about countable noun ????

Countable nouns are easy to recognize. They are things that we can count. For example: "pen". We can count pens. We can have one, two, three or more pens.
A countable noun has two forms: singular and plural. We use the singular form when we talk about one object (or concept), and we use the plural form when we talk about more than one object (or concept). We put"s" or "es" after the thing that we want to reveal in plural. We can say:
There is 1 book on the table, and 3 books on the chair.
I have two houses in Kendari.

after reading the brief explanation above, i hope readers can determine and distinguish between countable and uncountable noun easily.

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